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Indian baby with two faces
doing well
Noida, India—The parents of an Indian infant girl born with two
faces say that she is eating and breathing normally despite having
two pairs of eyes and lips and two noses. The baby, who is yet to be
named, was born to factory worker Vinod Kumar and his wife Sushma
three weeks ago in northern India and has been drawing a stream of
curious observers and others who consider her a deity in this deeply
religious Hindu-majority country.
“I had never seen something like this in my life so naturally I was
a little scared when I first saw her,” her father said at the
weekend at the family’s mud-and-brick house in Noida town, about 50
kilometres (30 miles) 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 can receive treatment or corrective surgery. “She’s fed
through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. We use
whichever 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 two
skulls joined together, and that separating them was out of the
question.—APP
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