SHOCKING!!! WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO BABY WITH TWO HEADS...

SHOCKING!!! WOMAN GIVES BIRTH TO BABY WITH TWO HEADS...

The Ogudu area of Lagos state was thrown into a frenzy, following the birth of a baby girl with two heads.

Shocking! Woman gives birth to a baby with two heads in Lagos...

According to reports, the baby has two heads with oxygen tube strapped on each. She equally has a neck, chest, two legs and two hands. A rare condition which in medical parlance is known as Parapagus.

It is a rare form of partial twinning where there is two heads and two necks side by side on one torso.

Doctors at Med-In Specialist Hospital, Osogbo Street, who took the delivery, said the baby was born around 6:30 pm on Tuesday through an elective caesarean section.

Doctors at Med-In Specialist Hospital, Osogbo Street, who took the delivery, said the baby was born around 6:30 pm on Tuesday through an elective caesarean section.

According to one of the nurses who was in the delivery room, they had prepared two cots for each of the twins but were shocked when they saw that they were conjoined.

“This is the first time I am seeing anything like this. I have watched it in movies but seeing it in real life was such an experience for me. Thankfully, the surgeon ensured that they survived.

“As I speak to you, the mother doesn’t know the condition of the babies. She still believes and expects to carry her twins. We haven’t told her yet. Only her husband was brought into the theater to see his children and he was the one who went to the doctors to LUTH,” said the nurse.

Med-In Hospital Manager Dare Moses said the baby was taken to LUTH so that tests can be conducted to ascertain if they share also vital organs like hearts and lungs.

He said: “There is a need to find out if they share major organs together. They may have to be flown abroad for separation if they have separate hearts and other vital organs. It is possible for them to survive. I have seen cases of twins like this in movie surviving and living normal lives.

“Normally, when we have cases of a pregnant woman expecting twins, we usually go for elective caesarean, which was what the mother opted for.

“But when the doctor was trying to extract one of the babies (first one), it got stuck and when he examined further, he discovered that there were two heads in one body. We are happy that the baby was delivered alive and placed on oxygen. Both heads were alive."