Weeks After These Conjoined Twins Were Born, The Parents Were Forced To Make An Impossible Decision

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When Candice and Grayson McNeill welcomed conjoined twins, they cherished every moment they shared with them. However, just five weeks after their daughters’ birth, the couple had to make an immensely difficult decision about their new arrivals – one, in fact, that no parent would envy.

Before the twins’ arrival, though, the McNeills were already the proud parents of three little girls. The family from Asheboro, North Carolina, would become even bigger, of course, when the new babies were born; their due date was November 15, 2017.

However, 15 weeks into the pregnancy, Candice and Grayson were dealt a blow, as an ultrasound scan revealed that the couple’s twin girls were in fact conjoined. And, perhaps unsurprisingly, the news came as a shock to the expectant parents.

After all, conjoined twins are far from a regular occurrence. Indeed, data collected by the University of Maryland Medical Center suggests that the phenomenon occurs just once in every 200,000 live births. Sadly, though, very few conjoined twins will live longer than 24 hours after they have entered the world.

And, even more tragically, many conjoined twins don’t even get to take their first breaths; according to the University of Maryland Medical Center, somewhere between 40 percent and 60 percent of them are stillborn. Doctors duly warned Candice and Grayson, then, that their girls probably wouldn’t survive outside of the womb.

Furthermore, the medical team offered the McNeills the option of terminating the pregnancy. The couple wouldn’t hear of aborting their babies, though, as it was their belief that they should give their twins the best chance of survival.

And in November 2017 Grayson would explain why he and his wife had come to that decision. In particular, he told Asheboro, North Carolina, newspaper The Courier-Tribune, “Termination was not an option for us. We don’t believe that is our right.”

Instead, the couple decided that Candice would carry their babies for as long as she could, in order to give them the best chance possible of thriving. That was despite the fact that the girls were joined at the shoulder and shared one body, meaning that surgeons would be unable to separate them.

Subsequent doctor’s appointments would reveal, however, that Candice and Grayson’s twins did still have two pairs of lungs between them, along with a heart each. Still, the babies needed to be kept under observation. And so when a pediatric cardiologist diagnosed the girls with coronary problems, he subsequently referred Candice’s care to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.

There, Candice could receive the specialized treatment that she and her unborn babies needed, and a medical team duly figured out a schedule for the expectant mother. Then on September 25, 2017, the mom of three moved into a Ronald McDonald House in Cincinnati, enabling her to live more closely to the hospital.


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