article_snippet: Conjoined twins occur every 200,000 births, however, as few as five per cent of those births actually survive being born.
article_snippet: the girls go to nursery five days a week and the girls recent report card says the girls are 'getting on just fine' the girls only had a small chance of survival as few as five per cent of conjoined twins' births actually survive being born .
article_snippet: Conjoined twins are two children physically connected to each other at some point in Conjoined twins bodies.
article_snippet: The lowest odds of this happening are 200,000 to one for every live birth and around 70 percent of conjoined twins are female.
article_snippet: Conjoined twins are always the same sex and the form of conjoined twinning refers directly to where Conjoined twins are joined.
article_snippet: Experts think that conjoined twins come from a single egg that fails to separate.
article_snippet: Around 200 conjoined twins are born each year and around half die before 200 conjoined twins first birthday.
highlights_snippet: Five per cent of conjoined twins survive birth so family prepared for worst .