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| Mum delivered of baby with two heads |
| 2016-12-15 |
| [THENATIONONLINENG.NET] A newborn baby delivered on Tuesday at a hospital in Ogudu on the outskirts of Lagos has two heads with oxygen tube strapped on each, a neck, chest, two legs and two hands. Picture at site. Doctors at Med-In Specialist Hospital, Osogbo Street, who took the delivery, said the baby was born around 6:30pm on Tuesday through an elective caesarean section. Its mother, surgeon and nurses entered the theatre prepared to take delivery of a set of twins as indicated by the various scans she underwent in the course of the pregnancy. But what they saw were two heads sharing a body. At the hospital yesterday, it was gathered that the baby was resuscitated and transferred to the Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) for advance care. According to one of the nurses who was in the delivery room, they had prepared two cots for each of the twins but were shocked when they saw that they were conjoined. "This is the first time I am seeing anything like this. I have watched it in movies but seeing it in real life was such an experience for me. Thankfully, the surgeon ensured that they survived. "As I speak to you, the mother doesn’t know the condition of the babies. She still believes and expects to carry her twins. We haven’t told her yet. Only her husband was brought into the theatre to see his children and he was the one who went with the doctors to LUTH," said the nurse. In medical parlance, the condition is known as Parapagus. It is a rare form of partial twinning where there are two heads and two necks side by side on one torso. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 Sounds rather like "The Old Tomater Woman" from "A Canticle For Leibowitz" by Waiter Miller Jr. Dude! One of my favorites of all time, CS. I think the sleepy head was named Rachel(?). |
| Posted by: JHH 2016-12-15 13:45 |
| #3 ...and oddly enough the Zika virus was a blessing in disguise making the delivery much easier then otherwise. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2016-12-15 10:00 |
| #2 Joe-Jim Gregory? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-12-15 02:10 |
| #1 Sounds rather like "The Old Tomater Woman" from "A Canticle For Leibowitz" by Waiter Miller Jr. |
| Posted by: Canuckistan sniper 2016-12-15 02:08 |