• Question: How can you get conjoined twins?

    Asked by JeremyTheHamster to Andy, Duane, Giovanna, Katie on 19 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Katie Pickering

      Katie Pickering answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      Conjoined twins form when they do not fully separate in the womb before they begin to grow.

    • Photo: Duane Mellor

      Duane Mellor answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      They start in the same way as identical twins as a single fertilised egg. In identical twins this eggs splits into two foetuses, in conjoined twins this separation is incomplete and they share some part of the same body.

    • Photo: Andrew Philp

      Andrew Philp answered on 19 Nov 2014:

      This is when the two foetuses do not separate in the womb as would typically happen with twins and so continue to develop together, attached at a specific point on their bodies

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