My babies were born joined at the head - docs told me they could die, you wouldn't believe what they look like now

LILIYA Bachinskaya, 39, lives in Sacramento, California, with husband Anatoliy, 39, a truck driver, and their seven children.

Their remarkable journey began when Liliya discovered she was carrying conjoined twins at her 11-week scan.

“Running from one hospital cot to the other to see each of my baby girls was the strangest feeling.

Most mothers of multiples are experts at being in two places at once – but at 10 months old, this was the first time my twin daughters had been apart, and I was not used to it!

I’d been told my babies were conjoined twins at my 11-week scan and warned their chances of survival were slim.

Doctors couldn’t say if separation would ever be possible.

But my husband Anatoliy and I wanted to continue with the pregnancy.

Now, a team of 30 medics had carefully s