'They couldn't tell what was connecting them': Miraculous story of conjoined twins defeating the odds

'I was really scared and upset because I was told there was a high possibility that the girls wouldn't survive the pregnancy.'

When Angela Formosa went in for her 16-week checkup on the twins growing within her belly, doctors delivered terrifying news.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Angela and her husband Daniel had already been warned the girls may be monoamniotic, a dangerous condition in which twins share an amniotic sac, but with the news of them being conjoined, the couple was heartbroken.

Doctors warned the girls would be lucky to make it to birth and if they somehow did, they would likely perish during the birthing process or immediately following.

Unwilling to abort, Angela carried the twins to term.

"I was really scared and upset because I was told there was a high possibility that the girls wouldn't survive the pregnancy," Angela told the Mirror.

"If they did survive the pregnancy, they might not survive the birth, then they might not survive surgery. They couldn't tell me what was connecting them. I didn't prepare to bring them home.

Though they were frightened, the twins survived their birth.

Two hours later, little Rosie and Ruby, who were fused at the abdomen, were rushed into surgery.

The girls were carefully separated during a 5-hour operation, in which the girls' shared intestine was also separated.

Angela admitted: "It wasn't until they were in hospital and they'd had their operation that my husband started getting everything ready for them at home."

Now, four years later, no one can tell the girls were ever in danger.

Rosie and Ruby are happy, healthy and ready for their first year of school

Angela explained: "Four years ago it wasn't in my mind that this would ever happen. I didn't think I'd ever see their first day at school so it is really amazing and all thanks to GOSH."

The twins are set to start school with their older sister, 9-year-old Lily, this year and Angela described them as being "very excited. They are very bubbly little girls, very headstrong and determined."

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