All Posts Tagged With: "parasitic twin"

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Feb
2009

Parents Seek Help For Surgery After Baby Arrives With Four Arms, Four Legs

Sara and Virgilio Desuyo are seeking financial help for a major operation after their first born baby arrives with four arms, four legs and two sex organs. The baby, who was born just 3 days ago, is still confined to the nursery on advice of the doctors attending to the case.
Dr. Edgar Garcia, provincial hospital [...]

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Jan
2009

Doctors To Remove Feet From Baby’s Bum

Eight-month-old Faith Mwampe from Zambia is set to undergo a potentially lifesaving operation to have the feet of an unformed twin protruding from her buttocks removed.
While she was expecting, Faith’s 18-year-old mother, Mercy Lenganji, an ultrasound revealed she was expecting twins.
After just one baby arrived, Zambian doctors allegedly labelled her condition as so shocking they [...]

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7
Apr
2008

Update: Baby With Two Faces Doing Well

I have received a ton of e-mails from my readers over the last week asking if I had a follow up to the baby born with two faces.
According to the baby’s parents, the little girl is eating and breathing normally despite having two pairs of eyes and lips and two noses.
The girl has found [...]

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