In the hands of both of their parents, twin brothers Amari and Jafar, leave the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for the first time since they were born conjoined last September.

My first two nights, I cried. I woke up crying because I didn't have... They wasn't there.

Shaneika and Tim Ruffin knew their twins would be born conjoined, so the first goal was to ensure a safe birth. With the nature of the conjoinment and Chops' history of success in separation surgeries, the Ruffins felt some relief.

The chest were not joined. Their hearts were not joined. They had separate normal structure, function hearts.

Energy changed, and that changed all of us for us, how confident it was and how positive it was.

The twins spent 10 months in the hospital prior to the surgery, learning how to feed and grow outside of the womb, while their surgical team of more than two dozen specialists worked on a plan.

I was more so overwhelmed with joy and excitement. A little bit of nervousness because it is a surgery, and I feel as though, being so young, it's still scary.

The actual surgery lasted eight hours. The outcome, a success.

When the ending is happy and joyous, that fulfills us in a way that constantly feels that sense of humanism that we want to infuse in the type of care that we offer our families.

They finally got to leave the hospital with their parents and their siblings this week. They'll still have to come back for weekly checkups. Shaneika already reflecting on how the boys will react when they're older.

I was thinking about them being five going to kindergarten, where they got to do show and tell. I showed them a picture, and they were like, Well, who's this? I'm like, You all were. That's you all.

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