Two faces baby

gjoy_chester · Post time 7-4-2008 04:08 PM

NOIDA, India (AFP) - The parents of an Indian infant girl born withtwo faces say that she is eating and breathing normally despite havingtwo pairs of eyes and lips and two noses.

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The baby, who is yet to be named, was born to factory worker Vinod Kumarand his wife Sushma three weeks ago in northern India and has beendrawing a stream of curious observers and others who consider her adeity in this deeply religious Hindu-majority country.
"I had never seen something like this in my life so naturally I was alittle scared when I first saw her," her father said at the weekend atthe family's mud-and-brick house in Noida town, about 50 kilometres (30miles) northeast of New Delhi.
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 canreceive 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 usewhichever 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 twoskulls joined together, and that separating them was out of thequestion.
"Since the heads are fused, separating them is not possible,"paediatrician D.K Gupta of the All India Institute of Medical Sciencestold the Hindustan Times newspaper on the weekend.
But doctors said the girl should be examined thoroughly to study the possibility of complications.
"Clearly the child is in no immediate danger but it has to be checkedwhether the oral and nasal cavity and other passages" are functioningproperly, paediatrician Gupta said.
The case comes just months after Indian doctors performed a rare,marathon surgery to remove the extra limbs of a girl born with fourarms and legs.
Two-year-old Lakshmi Tatma's case captivated the nation last year asdomestic and international media focused on her complicated surgeryperformed in southern Bangalore city in November.
This year, Lakshmi started taking her first steps with the help of a baby walker, delighting her parents and doctors.
Lakshmi, named after the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth, was bornfused to the pelvis of a twin that had stopped developing in hermother's womb -- a condition that occurs once in 50,000 conjoined twinbirths.
Kumar said he had heard about Lakshmi, but did not want to change anything about his daughter's features.
"Whatever God has given me is acceptable. What can we do about it?" hesaid, lifting the baby to take her away after allowing a brief glimpseof her as neighbours crowded around her cot.
"This child is very special to us," the baby's grandfather chimed in, gazing lovingly at the infant.

contessa · Post time 7-4-2008 04:27 PM

kuasa yg esa mengatasi segalanya...tp biasalah...manusia yg tiada agama sll mengaitkan benda cam ni tuhan mereka....

nora0401 · Post time 11-4-2008 12:27 PM

allah maha besar...

sume nie ada hikmah disebalik kejadian...kita hanya merancang dan tuhan yg akan menentukan segalanye...

pralines · Post time 12-4-2008 05:58 PM

lawak plak bila diorg ckp camtu..

azwandyazizan · Post time 13-4-2008 12:28 AM

kembar x jadi ker??

viper_2803 · Post time 19-6-2008 12:33 PM

lubang apa yg ada kat tengah

zahliahani · Post time 19-6-2008 04:55 PM

agak2 nya lubang idung ler kot...

weirdwaniey · Post time 20-6-2008 12:53 AM

pusat ke?

aint · Post time 20-6-2008 09:27 AM

lesung pipit kot?

tak_tahu · Post time 20-6-2008 10:28 PM

dorg ni cpt sgt, asal pelik je, keramat.

Rangeboy · Post time 9-4-2009 10:02 PM

Ni aku masukkan video baby ni..
Korang tgk la...

batuk · Post time 9-4-2009 10:09 PM

kalo camni kira 2 nyawa ker ar?

Rangeboy · Post time 9-4-2009 10:11 PM

Satu nyawa kot sbb organ dalaman dia mcm biasa. Muka jer dua..

batuk · Post time 9-4-2009 11:01 PM

isk complicated kes ni

err cam ner ar? kalo sesuatu terlintas kat kepala untuk bercakap (satu kepala jer kan?)

sapa yang nak bercakap? (ader 2 mulut)

haku tak paham dengan soklan sendiri