A baby has marveled doctors after she was born with two heads and now fighting very hard to survive.
The two-headed baby
A little baby born with two heads has left doctors baffled. The little girl was born with two arms and two legs.
According to footage of the baby released, both mouths appear to be crying normally, a sign everything's fine after birth, Dailystar reports.
The baby weighs about nine pounds and was delivered at the Ibn Sina General Hospital in the eastern part of Indonesia. It was gathered that the girl suffered respiratory failure immediately.
Doctors say the girl suffers from the extremely rare condition known as dicephalic parapagus. She is pictured inside an incubator with tubes helping her breathe. The mum's condition is unknown at this stage.
Dicephalic parapagus is a rare form of partial twinning where there are two heads side by side on one torso - wikipedia. Babies born with the condition can have either two, three or four arms.
The girl was born on Wednesday and has defied the odds by continue to survive. Only a small number of infants born with this condition survive into adulthood.
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