Two-Headed Babies
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Abigail Loraine Hensel and Brittany Lee Hensel (born 7 March 1990, Minnesota, United States) are dicephalic conjoined twins. Brittany ("Britty") is the left twin, and Abigail ("Abby") is the right twin. They have two spines which join at the pelvis. They have two stomachs, three lungs, and at birth, three arms (the arm between their heads was underdeveloped and useless, and was amputated in infancy). |
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Syafitri, an Indonesian baby born with two heads, sleeps in a Jakarta hospital August 10, 2006. The four-day-old baby girl weighs 7 pounds and 450 grams. [Reuters] |
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Egyptian twins Huda, top, and Manal Abdel Nasser Mohammed Mahmoud, in their incubator at the neo-natal surgical intensive care unit in Abu el-Reesh hospital in Cairo. (AP) |
Cairo - A 26-year old woman from a village in upper Egypt has given birth to a health baby girl with two heads, the Cairo daily Al-Akhbar reported on Friday. The baby can move both heads, according to the newspaper, which also published a photo of the child.
The baby was delivered by Caesarean section in a hospital in Assiut after an uncomplicated nine-month pregnancy. The baby was then brought to a specialist clinic in Cairo “to carry out further tests and to establish how to manage this unusual case”. - Sapa-DPA
— “Egyptian Mommy Gives Birth to Two-Headed Girl,” 13 June 2003, at http://www.stevequayle.com/News.alert/03_Unexplained/030820.2-headed.baby.html.
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Doctors check three girls [sic] born in San Juan, Argentina some 1,280 km (800 miles) northwest of Buenos Aires, Argentina, by a 25-year old woman (who was not identified) giving triplets, one normal and two conjoined., Sunday, June 22, 2003. (AP Photo/Courtesy Diario de Cuyo) |
An Argentine woman has given birth to conjoined twin girls and a boy. The twins were born fused at the head, and shared a heart and other vital organs. The woman also delivered a healthy baby boy.
The birth occurred in the provincial city of San Juan, Doctor Gonzalo Medina told the Todo Noticias cable news channel. He said the girls were born joined from the chest to mid-abdomen and shared other lower parts of the body. He said the twins, born as part of triplets with the boy, are in a stable condition. He said an initial assessment indicated it may not be possible to separate them. But he added that his staff are consulting with surgical teams in other countries. The mother, who was not identified, is in a stable condition, Medina said.
Conjoined twins occur when a single fertilized egg splits to form twins, but the separation is incomplete. They occur about once in every 200,000 live births and are three times more likely to be girls than boys.
— The Associated Press, “Woman gives birth to conjoined twins girls and a boy,” Ananova, 24 June 2003.
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A pair of newly born conjoined twins abandoned in a New Delhi hospital by their parents will be cared for by a non-governmental organisation (AFP/Prakash Singh) |
The two have separate heads, chests, hearts, stomachs, lungs and spinal cords but their liver, bladder, intestines and genitalia are fused. They also have just two legs between them.
— “India's abandoned newborn conjoined twins to be adopted by NGO,” Yahoo! News, 21 July 2003.
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A nurse holds an Egyptian baby named Manar Maged in a hospital in the city of Banha, 25 miles, north of Cairo Feb. 18, 2005. Egyptian doctors said they removed the second head from the girl, who was suffering from the rare birth defects in an operation on Saturday [19 Feb 2005]. (Photos: Reuters) |
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Egyptian doctors said they removed a second head from a 10-month-old girl suffering from one of the rarest birth defects in an operation [19 Feb 2005]. Abla el-Alfy, a consultant in paediatric intensive care, told Reuters at the hospital in Benha, near Cairo, that Manar Maged was in a serious but improving condition after the procedure to treat her for craniopagus parasiticus — a problem related to that of conjoined twins linked at the skull. “We are still working on the baby. After surgery…you get unstable blood pressure, you get fever. But she is stabilizing,” Alfy said. “We have some improvement.”
 Eleven-month-old Manar Maged sleeps at Benha Hospital, north of Cairo, Egypt on Feb. 21. The girl is in stable condition after undergoing a second operation to remove excess fluid from her brain. |
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Eighteen surgeons, nurses and doctors will take several rotations to cut off the undeveloped tissue, clip the veins and arteries and close the skull of the seven-week-old baby using a bone graft from another part of her body.…
Cure International, a Lemoyne, Pa.,-based charity that gives medical care to disabled children in developing countries, is paying for the surgery and follow-up care.
— “Dominican baby born with second head scheduled for risky removal surgery,” Yahoo! News, 4 Feb 2004.
[The girl] bled to death [7 Feb 2004] after complex surgery to remove her partially formed twin, her parents and doctors said.
— Peter Prengaman (The Associated Press), “Infant Girl Dies After 2nd Head Removed,” Yahoo! News, 7 Feb 2004.
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Arlene Aguirre gives her conjoined twins a kiss Wednesday before they were taken into the operating room. |
Carl and Clarence Aguirre remained under heavy sedation in side-by-side beds but were expected to awaken later in the day — the first time in their short lives that they would see each other apart, their jubilant doctors said.
— “Filipino conjoined twins separated in surgery,” USA Today, 5 Aug 2004.
Videos: USA Today, Associated Press
Two-faced babies
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A baby girl born in Northern India Monday has two faces, it is reported by NBC affiliate KARE11. The residents of the small village where the baby was born have begun gathering to worship the child, seen as an incarnation of God.
The girl was born in Gautam Budh Nagar in the suburbs of Delhi, IBNLive.com. She was born to Vinod Singh and Sushma at Saifai Hospital in Dadr, India.
"Both mother and the child are healthy and doing fine," Dr Aas Mohammad, of Saifai Hospital, told IBNLive.com.
— "Baby With Two Faces Born in India," FOX News, 13 March 2008, at http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337492,00.html.
Kathmandu: Hundreds of people thronged the house of Sitaram Chaudhary in Saptari district in eastern Nepal to have a glance at the new born girl child with four eyes, two mouths and two noses.
Shamvawati, 24, wife of Chaudhary gave birth to the girl child yesterday, reported an english daily Kantipur.
As news of the birth of such a child spread, people from far and wide rushed to Chaudhary’s house to worship her as an incarnation of goddess Bhagawati.
“The baby girl is in good health and can see with all her four eyes and sucks milk with both mouths,” said her mother.
— UNI, “Girl with four eyes born in Nepal,” Mid-Day, 10 June 2003.
Rajbiraj: The baby-girl…died [the evening of 17 June 2003] of medical complications.
“The baby developed some breathing difficulties…and died after few hours,” said Sitaram Chaudhary, father to the baby girl.
The baby girl was born to Sitaram Chaudhary and Sambhavati Chaudhary of Hardiya VDC-2 in Saptari district.
— KOL, “Strange Baby Girl Passes Away,” Rense.com, 18 June 2003.
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See also
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Two-faced cats |
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One-eyed kitten |
| Human medical curiosities | |
| More conjoined pictures | |
| More Animal Oddities | |
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Seeing through a cat's eyes |
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