US twins born holding hands

Twin girls born with a rare condition in the US were breathing on their own, and their mother said she and her husband were able to hold them on what was America's Mother's Day.Sarah Thistlethwaite said babies Jillian and Jenna were removed from ventilators on Sunday after they were able to breathe comfortably."It's just hard to put into words how amazing it feels to know the girls are OK," she told The Associated Press.

The identical twin girls shared the same amniotic sac and placenta. Such births are called monoamniotic, or "mono mono," and doctors say they occur in about one of every 10,000 pregnancies.

They were born on Friday in Ohio, grasping each other's hands when doctors lifted them up for their parents to see after delivery.