UPDATE:
Despite attempts by doctors to save the two-headed baby girl born in Bangladesh last week, the girl has passed away from heart failure.
“She was not in a stable condition since she was born,” a spokesperson for the Dhaka Medical College Hospital said, saying that the baby girl died before doctors could intervene.
The girl’s father Jamal Mia had previously expressed concern over his family’s ability to provide for the girl, and told reporters he was thankful that doctors gave him the money to bury the baby girl.
The girl’s mother – who has been unwell since the baby was delivered via caesarean – is not yet aware that her daughter has passed away.
Mamamia previously reported….
An extraordinary two-headed baby girl has been delivered in a “miracle” birth in Bangladesh.
The baby, who was born overnight Australian time, is now being treated for breathing difficulties after she was shifted to the intensive care unit of the country’s largest hospital in Dhaka.
Thousands of people have reportedly flocked to the hospital in Brahmanbaria, east of Dhaka, where she was delivered by Caesarean section, to catch a glimpse of the baby.
Her father Jamal Mia, a farm labourer, described being “awestruck” when he first saw his new baby.
He told AFP : “She has two fully developed heads. She is eating with two mouths and breathing with two noses,” he said.
“Still, I thank Allah that she and the mother are now okay.”
Jamal added that he was concerned about how he would manage to care for the baby if extra expenses were needed.
“I feel sad for her. She has been born to a poor man. I don’t have money to even properly treat her mother,” he said.
The Mirror UK reports, Abu Kawsar, owner of the Standard Hospital of Total Healthcare where the baby was born, said initial tests showed she only has one set of vital organs.
“Except for having two heads, the newborn has the rest of her organs and limbs like a normal newborn,” he said.
He added that the hospital was inundated with visitors after news spread of the “miracle newborn”.
“The entire town poured into the clinic. There were thousands of people with some of them coming from the nearby villages,” he said.
“It’s good that the baby has been shifted to Dhaka. Otherwise, it would have been difficult for us to control the crowd.”
A baby was also born in Bangladesh with two heads in 2008 but later died.
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I think both babies (two faces two heads) are really cute!
Scientifically, how does this happen? Is it an odd shaped sperm thing? Cell division issues?
Cell division issues. If the fertilised egg (zygote) divides in two early enough, you get seperate identical twins. A few cell divisions later and you'll get co-joined twins. The later the split, the more fused the babies.