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. where they underwent an 11-hour surgery Aug. 5 at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, becoming the first known set of conjoined twins to be successfully separated in Michigan.
"'They're so rare," said Treadwell, explaining that just 1 in 100,000 to 1 in 250,000 pregnancies involve conjoined twins. Few survive delivery, and even fewer live long enough to be discharged from the hospital and go home, like Sarabeth and Amelia did.
Two teams of surgeons - one for each girl - and more than a dozen other medical staff spent months planning how they'd safely separate Sarabeth and Amelia, giving them a chance at independent lives.
Just a few weeks after the first-of-its-kind surgery, Sarabeth sucked on a pacifier, leaning against her father's leg on a blanket in the grass outside their house in Petersburg, about 10 miles north of the Ohio state line in Monroe County.
Amelia spotted a cellphone on the ground and began to crawl for it. She looked up at her big sister, Kennedy, who was running across the lawn, and said, "Sissy."
"Other than taking our word for it, you would almost never know that they were conjoined," said their father, Phil Irwin on a warm mid-September day.
Their mom, Alyson Irwin, smiled, and said, "They're doing great."
But neither Alyson nor Phil could ever have dreamed they'd be able to say that about their twins when they first discovered they were conjoined in late February 2019.
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Something about the pregnancy was different, but Alyson, 33, who works in
the
agricultural industry, selling feed and fertilizer to farmers, couldn't pinpoint what it was.
"I thought we were going to have a boy," she said. "It felt different" than her previous pregnancy, when she carried Kennedy, who's now a spunky 3-year-old who loves animals and playing on her backyard jungle gym.
The Irwins looked forward to the 20-week prenatal appointment, set for Feb. 27, 2019. They were eager to see ultrasound images of their growing baby. They agreed they wouldn't find out the gender, and instead wanted to let it be a surprise at delivery.
Still, Alyson was pretty convinced her hunch was right.
"I thought we were just pregnant with a big old boy, so that's why I even bought a boy onesie and everything for a boy," Alyson said.
None of their previous prenatal doctor's visits gave them any inkling that they were having twins or that they might be conjoined.
The ultrasound technician moved the wand around on Alyson's belly, but then quickly excused herself to get the doctor.
"It may have been 5 minutes, but it seemed like forever," before the doctor came into the room, Phil said. "That's when we found out they were conjoined."
"It kind of felt like the worst news you could receive, you know?" Alyson said. "Especially because the statistics are not good.
"They had never seen anything like that before. So they said their hearts were breaking for us . but there wasn't anything they could do."
Their doctor referred them to a high-risk obstetrician, and within 24 hours, the Irwins were in Ann Arbor, meeting with Treadwell at Michigan Medicine.
"I tend to always try to be hopeful, but I also have to be realistic," said Treadwell, who also is a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan. "Giving people false hope is not particularly helpful for anyone."
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