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Feb 9, 2006 9:04 pm US/Central

Conjoined Twins Released From Hospital

Fargo, N.D. (AP) ― Conjoined twins Abby and Belle Carlsen are home from a stay at a Minneapolis hospital.

The girls were discharged from the hospital Wednesday afternoon. Their parents, Jesse and Amy Carlsen, drove back to Fargo, N.D. that day.

"They're home and happy and smiling all the time," Jesse Carlsen said Thursday. "They're doing good."

The twins were hospitalized last week after Abby developed a lung infection. The girls also underwent tests that will help doctors determine how best to separate them.

Jesse Carlsen said a date for surgery has not been set.

Abby and Belle were born in late November at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis. Preliminary studies showed they are joined at the breastbone, liver and part of their intestines, but they have separate hearts and other vital organs.

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According to the Mayo Clinic, conjoined twins are extremely rare, occurring once in every 200,000 births.

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