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Woman Delivers Baby With Two Heads As She Had No Money For Ultrasound

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An Indian woman, Urmila Sharma, 28, has given birth to conjoined twins after she was too poor to have an ultrasound during her pregnancy.

The twins were born at Cygnus JK Hindu Hospital in Sonipat, Haryana, in northern India, on Wednesday morning.

The baby, born via C-section and weighing 7lbs 7oz, has two heads, two necks and two spines but only one body.

Now she is under close observation in the neonatal intensive care unit but Doctors now fear the yet to be named baby girl, has slim chance of survival.

The parents are very distressed now and the doctors are helping the family the best they can.

Urmila and her husband Subhash who have one other daughter, were too poor to have an ultrasound during the pregnancy so complications had gone unnoticed.

The doctors say that they only came to know the woman was carrying conjoined twins after an ultrasound two weeks ago but it was too late to do anything by then.

Conjoined twins who share a single body have dicephalic parapagus - an extremely unusual form of conjoinment.

The are genetically identical, and are, therefore, always the same sex. They develop from the same fertilized egg, and they share the same amniotic cavity and placenta.

Because they share the same body, it is not possible to separate dicephalic parapagus twins.


Source: Mail Online

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