Coastal Bend Day of Giving 2025: Choice Living Community<\/a><\/p>\nIn 2016, Silvia Hernandez Ambriz gave birth to triplets \u2014 Ximena, Scarlett and Catalina. But two of the sisters, Ximena and Scarlett, were born conjoined at the pelvis, requiring an extraordinary medical effort to separate them.<\/p>\n
Doctors at Driscoll Children\u2019s Hospital performed the complex surgery, successfully separating the girls. giving the girls a chance at independent lives.<\/p>\n
\u201cThanks to the doctors, they’re here\u2026 walking and dancing,\u201d their mother, Silvia Hernandez Ambriz, said.<\/p>\n
Doctors once told the family they weren\u2019t sure if the girls would ever walk. Today, not only are Ximena and Scarlett walking, they\u2019re dancing and competing in a state cheerleading competition, with their mom as their head coach.<\/p>\n
From the music they chose to every step in their routine, Silvia said the performance tells the story of their family\u2019s journey, one that comes full circle with a final pose symbolizing where it all began.<\/p>\n
Michelle Horine, the girls\u2019 madrina or godmother, has been cheering them on since the very beginning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was blessed to be one of the few people that was able to go into the NICU and visit them when they were still conjoined,\u201d said Horine, who now serves as CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities South Texas. \u201cI was blessed to be with their mother during the surgery. They shut the whole waiting room down and only allowed a few people in the room. They\u2019ll always be a part of our family.\u201d<\/p>\n
Horine said the triplets, along with their grandmother and mother, lived at the Ronald McDonald House for more than a year while the girls recovered.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe moments that marked my life forever… I\u2019m not going to forget this, because the people here were always there for us,\u201d Silvia said. \u201cWhen we cried, they cried with us. We never felt alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
What happened in that operating room changed everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like they were born again,\u201d Silvia said. \u201cAn example for other kids with medical conditions \u2014 if they want something, to not give up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, nearly ten years later, the Hernandez Ambriz family is preparing to take the stage once again \u2014 not in a hospital, but under bright lights, together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Doctors once told the family they weren\u2019t sure if the girls would ever walk. Now, not only are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[155,157,156],"class_list":["post-30512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}