HEADLINES--61 Pound Baby
| Fox News Report | Mum picking up her baby |
8 limbed baby Documentary
| Lakshmi Tatma was born with four arms and four legs, but also carries a rare parasitic conjoined twin that could kill her. | Formerly the "8 limbed girl" these photos show her pre and post operation. Within a week she could be held by her parents and has movement in her feet. | ||
| A new born baby girl was born with two faces, two mouths and four eyes in the rural Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, Her parents, said their little girl was "a gift from God". Villagers claim she is the reincarnation of the Indian God Ganesha. Lali was born with a rare condition called craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Doctors who delivered the baby said she appeared to be in good health, and is leading a normal life with no breathing difficulties. They were initially uncertain whether the baby would have normal functions but say so far she is "doing well" and eating from both of her two mouths. She also opens and shuts all four eyes at the same time. | Lakshmi Tatma was born joined to a 'parasitic twin' and will go under the knife at the hands of 30 surgeons to remove two of her useless arms and legs. The headless 'twin' is joined to Lakshmi at the pelvis and has its own spinal column and kidney. Without the operation the little girl would never be able to walk or crawl and would be unlikely to live past her early teens, doctors said. The extraordinary eight-limbed baby was born in a poverty-stricken region of Bihar, India - on the day devoted to the celebration of the four-armed Hindu deity Vishnu. Her mother Poonam Tatma said she believed her daughter was "a miracle, a reincarnation" of Vishnu. | ||
