ALANTA (AP) -- Conjoined twins boys delivered at an Atlanta hospital have died less than two days after they were born, the newborns' parents said.<br />
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Robin and Michael Hamby of Ladonia, Alabama, announced the deaths of their twin sons - Asa and Eli - in a video posted late Friday on a Facebook page they used for months to update supporters on the pregnancy and birth. The twins, who shared a heart and were joined side-by-side, were delivered Thursday morning by C-section. The Hambys said they died Friday afternoon at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.<br />
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"We got to hold them, love on them and sing to them," said Michael Hamby, who added that the boys were kept sedated and didn't suffer.<br />
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The twins were taken to the children's hospital after they were delivered Thursday at Northside Hospital in Atlanta. The Hambys said doctors found irregularities in the right side of the boys' heart and on Friday their condition worsened as one side of the heart beat faster than the other.<br />
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Spokeswomen for both hospitals declined to release any further information Saturday, citing privacy requests by the family.<br />
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Conjoined twins are extremely rare - occurring once every 200,000 live births according to the University of Maryland Medical Center - and many are delivered stillborn.<br />
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"God gave us extra time with them that some parents don't have," Robin Hamby said in the video recorded from her hospital bed.<br />
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Michael Hamby told the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer ( http://bit.ly/12wknty ) the boys will be cremated and a memorial service will be planned later.
