KUNA habari kwamba, binti mjamzito, Bao Qiaoying (25) na mumewe waliamua kwa shingo upande kutoa mimba baada ya kubaini kuwa, mtoto wao mtarajiwa hakuwa wa kawaida, alikuwa na mwili mmoja wenye vichwa viwili vilivyoungana.Madaktari wa upasuaji nchini China wamesema, haiwezekani kutenganisha vichwa vya mtoto huyo wa kike aliyezaliwa Mei mwaka huu katika jimbo la Sichuan.
Awali vipimo vilionesha kuwa, mtoto mtarajiwa alikuwa wa kawaida, lakini siku mbili kabla ya kujifungua, mama mtarajiwa aligundua kuwa, kiumbe kilichokuwa tumboni hakikuwa cha kawaida, wakaamua (na mumewe), atoe mimba, muda mfupi baadaye hali ikabadilika ikabidi apelekwe chumba cha kujifungulia.
Surgeons in China say a baby girl born with two heads cannot be separated.
Bao Qiaoying, 25, gave birth to the two-headed baby at Suining, southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Doctors at Suining Central Hospital said it was extremely rare to see a baby with two heads, and it was the first such case in China.
Bao was living in Guangdong Province as a migrant worker when she became pregnant. Her first scan found the baby to be normal.
She then went back to her home in Suining with her husband, Liao Guojun, to prepare for the birth of their first child.
A second scan also suggested the baby was normal but after a third scan last week, doctors told her "the foetus has two heads, and one body".
"My husband and I immediately went to the central hospital for another checkup and colour Doppler imaging confirmed my baby has two heads but one body," said Bao.
Reluctantly, the couple decided to abort the foetus but Bao went into labour shortly after arriving at Suining Central Hospital for the termination.
"It would have been too dangerous to go ahead with the abortion with the mother in labour so we advised them to give birth to the baby," said Doctor Zhang Libin. Doctors delivered the baby by caesarean section.
Tests showed the little girl also has two spines and one and a half hearts, while other organs are shared. "We couldn't do a separation surgery on the baby.
They must live together," added Doctor Zhang.The twins weighted 4 kilograms and measured 51 centimeters.
The baby girl twins share one trunk, one pelvis, one spleen, one gallbladder and one reproductive system.
The x-rays show they have two spines, two esophagi, two stomachs, two sets of lungs and two separate nervous systems.
Her migrant farmer parents did not learn of the abnormality until two days before the mother was due to give birth.
The birth of dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins – who develop after a fertilized egg cell fails to divide fully – is extremely rare, with most cases occurring in southwest Asia and Africa.
Liao Guojun, father of the two-head baby, said they are currently calling the babies “Left sister” and “Right sister”.
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