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Medical Preparation
Because so much of their body was connected, including their skin, the doctors had to come up with a way to give themselves ample room to work to separate the girls from one another—in other words, they had to loosen the skin that joined the two twins together.
“Every week we would get tissue expanders which were like, little balloons that you get placed under the skin so that the skin stretches so that we would have enough skin to get closed,” Maliyah explained. But even with all this medical preparation, the family was still told that the surgery wasn’t guaranteed to be successful.