’Two souls with one heart’:One-in-a-million Conjoined twins born sharing the same arms

’Two souls with one heart’:One-in-a-million Conjoined twins born sharing the same arms

Mangalore Today News Network

Dec 05, 2014: Conjoined twin brothers who share the same the same body and heart have been born today in Atlanta.

Asa and Eli Hamby - who can never be separated - were welcomed into the world at 7.32am via a pre-planned C-section to mom Robin and dad Michael and according to a dedicated ’Hamby Twins’ Facebook page are healthy and well.

Asa & Eli’s first picture with their Mom Robin! Robin was reunited with her new sons when she woke from the c-section late morning on Thursday

’Babies are out and so far they are doing amazing,’ an 8am post declared about the 9 pounds, 10 ounce children, ’Both babies crying their little eyes out!!’

With no immediate complications, the boys are on oxygen masks as a precaution while doctors at Northside hospital in Atlanta examine them.

Born with two heads, but sharing one body, the condition Asa and Eli have is known as dicephalic parapagus - an extremely unusual form of conjoinment, affecting only one-in-a-million births.

Asa and Eli can never be separated because they share one heart and one circulatory system.

Shortly after the birth, Robin was told there was a slight issue with her son’s heart, but that they are doing well.



Robin Hamby poses for a group picture with family and friends prior to her scheduled cesarian section of conjoined twin boys on Thursday morning


’There is an issue with the right side of the heart. The left side is perfect. The right side has like an extra atrium and an extra ventricle, and there’s two aortas. One of the arteries is like switched, not in the right place because of having extra ones, but he said that their vital signs are stable,’ said

Both Robin and Michael are 34 and are being supported by their extended family, included Michael’s father David, who has been wearing a T-shirt all morning embossed with ’Two souls sharing one heart.’

’Now, I’m waiting to hear that they’re OK with everything else,’ said David Hamby, Michael’s father to the Ledger Enquirer



One-in-a-million: Asa and Eli are seen here in an ultrasound taken at 35-weeks. The first time that Robin and Michael had seen the faces of their two unborn sons

The rare and extremely risky pregnancy carried through to 37 weeks and Robin and Michael traveled from Alabama to Atlanta’s Northside Hospital for specialist care.

’Robin is doing amazing and rocked that surgery!!!’ the twins’ aunt, Emily Berdeaux posted online shortly after the twins were born this morning.