A woman who is one of the rarest types of twins in the world says she is grateful to be alive after doctors gave her and her sister a one per cent chance of survival.
Hope and her sister, Faith Baxter, both 24, are Momo twins - monochorionic monoamniotic - identical twins who share a placenta and amniotic sac.
Doctors told their parents that if they went to full term there was a chance one of the twins would not survive so they decided to induce them two months early.
The twins spent six weeks in the NICU and were given a one per cent chance of survival.
Hope said it was a "miracle" that both of them are alive and thank their parents every day for their decision to have them induced.
Hope and her sister, Faith Baxter, both 24, are Momo twins - monochorionic monoamniotic - identical twins who share a placenta and amniotic sac.
Doctors told their parents that if they went to full term there was a chance one of the twins would not survive so they decided to induce them two months early.
The twins spent six weeks in the NICU and were given a one per cent chance of survival.
Hope said it was a "miracle" that both of them are alive and thank their parents every day for their decision to have them induced.
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00:00Identical twin sister faith are momo twins, which means monochorionic monoamniotic
00:04This is the rarest type of twin that there is and it is also the most identical twin that there could ever be
00:10So basically the embryo doesn't split until after the amniotic sac has formed which usually with identical twins
00:16The embryo splits before the amniotic sac. So we were literally the same amniotic sac
00:21There were not two separate amniotic sacs
00:23Momo twins have a lot higher of a risk for complications as you can imagine since we split a lot later
00:28Another thing with momo twins is that because we had the same amniotic sac we shared a placenta
00:33Usually twins will have their own amniotic sac
00:35So they don't have to share a placenta and a sad fact is that only 65% of momo twins will have both twins make it
00:41Out alive me and faith had a lot of complications in our birth
00:45We were very premature and we had to stay in the NICU for many weeks after we were born
00:50But luckily we both made it
00:52That's also why we are named hope and faith because nobody really thought that
00:56both of us or even any of us would make it faith had a
00:59Collapsed lung when she was born and I had some heart conditions. I had to get surgery for so we really are momo miracle babies