{"id":3510,"date":"2021-09-07T12:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T16:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/?p=3510"},"modified":"2021-09-07T22:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T02:33:33","slug":"israeli-twins-finally-see-each-other-after-being-born-conjoined-back-to-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/2021\/09\/07\/israeli-twins-finally-see-each-other-after-being-born-conjoined-back-to-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Twins Finally See Each Other After Being Born Conjoined Back-to-Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A year after these twins were born conjoined at the head, and back-to-back, they can finally meet each other face-to-face after undergoing rare separation surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli twin girls\u2019 surgery lasted more than 12 hours at the Soroka Medical Centre, and took months of preparations, as well as involved dozens of experts from Israel and abroad, the hospital said.<\/p>\n<p>Soroka\u2019s chief pediatric neurosurgeon Mickey Gideon told <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/lifestyle\/born-conjoined-back-to-back-israeli-twins-finally-see-each-other-after-surgery-2021-09-05\/\">Reuters<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0\u201cThis was a rare and complex surgery that has been conducted only 20 times worldwide and now, for the first time, in Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As seen in the photo, the twins are facing one another in a cot, with their heads bandaged. According to the hospital\u2019s statement, the surgery involved cranial reconstruction and scalp grafts for both siblings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are recovering nicely. They are breathing and eating on their own,\u201d said the head of Soroka\u2019s plastic surgery department, Edlad Silberstein.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2BpWmqUsnuo\" width=\"870\" height=\"490\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A year after these twins were born conjoined at the head, and back-to-back, they can finally meet each other face-to-face after undergoing rare separation surgery. The Israeli twin girls\u2019 surgery lasted more than 12 hours at the Soroka Medical Centre, and took months of preparations, as well as involved dozens of experts from Israel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3511,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3510\/revisions\/3511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspirationpost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}