The Australian parents of rare conjoined twins, Faith and Hope, ignored doctors when they advised them they should end the pregnancy when they knew the babies would be born with one head and two faces.
Now they are equally ignoring any negative comments that are coming from around the world on the news of the birth of the twins on Thursday.
"I don't know them, so I don't care what they think," their proud mum Renee Young told the Nine Network.
And the couple's seven other children are equally in love with the twins.
"They absolutely love them to pieces. We take them for a visit and they don't want to leave," their father Simon Howie said.
Mr Howie said the babies were stable and slowly feeding with tubes.
They have a hole in their heart and this will probably be operated on when they gain more weight, he said.
The babies have an extremely rare condition called diprosopus, and share a body, limbs and a skull, but each have their own brains and a set of identical facial features.
The twins were born at 32 weeks by emergency caesarean and astounded doctors when they were able to breathe on their own and are in a stable condition.
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