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

Lisa — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:17:03 +0000

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 chief, said the baby was born with an abdominal wall defect that would require an operation to prevent occurrence of infection.

“The baby is healthy and weighs 2.9 kilos when it was born. We hope that after the operation, she may live a normal and healthy life,” Garcia said.

Garcia said the defect might be from an undeveloped twin, which did not fully develop when it was still in the mother’s womb.

The occurrence of a baby being born attached to a parasitic twin seems to be increasing.

Last year Lakshmi Tatma made the news after doctors successfully removed her 2 extra arms and 2 extra legs.

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Doctors To Remove Feet From Baby’s Bum

Lisa — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:02:42 +0000

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 hid her from her mother for two hours after birth for fear she would go into shock.

“They put Faith in an incubator as is the procedure with all babies born with deformities in Zambia, and only then was I allowed to see my child,” Mercy said, adding that she loved her baby unconditionally.

But UK tabloid The Sun reports that when her father first set eyes on his daughter, he walked straight out of the ward, and out of her life for good.

The baby will now have to undergo a five-hour surgery that is deemed very risky. Without it, doctors fear she will be unable to walk or lead a normal life.

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Update: Baby With Two Faces Doing Well

Lisa — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:29:44 +0000

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 easy acceptance in Kumar’s large, extended family, who say they have no plans to consult doctors to check if the girl can receive treatment or corrective surgery.

“The doctor said everything is normal when she was born. So where’s the need to get medical help?” said the child’s father.

“She’s fed through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. We use whichever mouth is free to feed her,” the 24-year-old Kumar told AFP, adding she is eating and breathing normally.

Doctors said it was an extremely rare case, with the girl having two skulls joined together, and that separating them was out of the question.

“Since the heads are fused, separating them is not possible,” paediatrician D.K Gupta of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences told the Hindustan Times newspaper on the weekend.

“Clearly the child is in no immediate danger but it has to be checked whether the oral and nasal cavity and other passages” are functioning properly, paediatrician Gupta said.

Many people had wondered if both faces were ‘working’ and they are. It would be really weird to hear both mouths crying at the same time.

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