![In this May 7, 2015 photo released by Nemours Children's Specialty Care, Dr. Carolyn Bannister, chief of pediatric anesthesiology for Nemours Children's Specialty Care, starts Conner's anesthesia prior to surgery at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville. For the first time in their 5-month-old lives, conjoined twins Carter and Conner squirmed in separate cribs. The Jacksonville boys who shared a liver and small intestine were successfully separated Thursday after a 12-hour operation by three surgeons, five anesthesiologists and 12 other staffers. [Nemours Children's Specialty Care/Michael LeGrand via AP]](http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/rendered/2015/05/AP_AX603_CONJOINED_TWINS_SE_15197369_8col.jpg)
The boys shared a liver and part of their small intestine, if they shared a heart or brain, fewer options were available. Dr. Daniel Robie, chief of pediatric general surgery at wolfson children's hospital in Jacksonville told the parents that they had to separate them and then reconstruct them so that they each have organs that are going to function normally.
For the parents Michelle Brantley and Bryan Mirabal, it wasn't easy at all. The fear and hope of having the twin successfully separated, you could imagine that. "It was very scary" Mirabal lamented.
The twin were successfully separated on Thursday after a 12 hour operation by three surgeons, five anesthesiologists and 12 other staffers. The parents were so happy and all smiles after the operation.
![In this May 7, 2015 photo released by Nemours Children's Specialty Care, Dr. Carolyn Bannister, chief of pediatric anesthesiology for Nemours Children's Specialty Care, starts Conner's anesthesia prior to surgery at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville. For the first time in their 5-month-old lives, conjoined twins Carter and Conner squirmed in separate cribs. The Jacksonville boys who shared a liver and small intestine were successfully separated Thursday after a 12-hour operation by three surgeons, five anesthesiologists and 12 other staffers. [Nemours Children's Specialty Care/Michael LeGrand via AP]](http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/rendered/2015/05/AP_AX601_CONJOINED_TWINS_SE_15197364_8col.jpg)
![In this May 7, 2015 photo released by Nemours Children's Specialty Care, Dr. Carolyn Bannister, chief of pediatric anesthesiology for Nemours Children's Specialty Care, starts Conner's anesthesia prior to surgery at Wolfson Children's Hospital in Jacksonville. For the first time in their 5-month-old lives, conjoined twins Carter and Conner squirmed in separate cribs. The Jacksonville boys who shared a liver and small intestine were successfully separated Thursday after a 12-hour operation by three surgeons, five anesthesiologists and 12 other staffers. [Nemours Children's Specialty Care/Michael LeGrand via AP]](http://www.tampabay.com/resources/images/dti/rendered/2015/05/AP_AX602_CONJOINED_TWINS_SE_15197360_8col.jpg)
Source_Tampa Bay Times.
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