Imagine your wife or partner is pregnant and she's expecting to give birth to a beautiful baby boy or girl. It's surely a cherished moment full of happiness and hope for the future. But then your family's happiest moment is shattered in an instant because of the mother give's birth to not one, but two girls who are conjoined at the pelvis.

This rare, life-threatening medical condition is called dicephalic parapagus. For one Indian couple this has become their reality and now they are wondering whether their daughters have any chance of survival. Their condition went undiagnosed because the family is very poor. The parents simply couldn't afford to have an ultrasound conducted early in the pregnancy.

At first medical personnel thought that the women gave birth to a baby girl with two heads. While the twins are conjoined, they occupy a single body. Most of their organs are shared and they have just one set of arms and legs. The only things that aren't shared are their necks and spinal cords (and obviously their heads).

Unfortunately, unlike other conjoined twins, doctors won't be able to separate the girls because of how connected they really are. It's too early to say at this point, but this case feels similar to the (female) twins.

Thankfully, the hospital is offering up it's full support to the family, but they have little to no options on how to address girls health and safety going forward.

"The parents are very distressed and we are helping the family the best we can," said Doctor Shikha Malik.

Malik, who delivered the babies, went on to say that the hospital ordered an ultrasound to figure out was only conducted a couple of weeks prior to the delivery.

"We only came to know she was carrying conjoined twins after an ultrasound two weeks ago but it was too late to do anything by then," Malik explained to The Daily Mail.

While it seems unlikely that they will survive past the newborn stage no one is giving up on these miraculous girls. For the time being they are being housed in the Cygnus J.K. Hindu Hospital's intensive care unit.

What would you do if you were in a similar situation? Let us know in the comments section below.