Indian mother, Urmila Sharma, 28, was too poor during her pregnancy to have an ultrasound gave birth to conjoined twins.PHOTOS: Poor Mother Gives Birth To Baby
With Two Heads
The twins were born at Cygnus JK Hindu Hospital in Sonipat, Haryana, in northern India, yesterday morning.
The baby girl is weighing 3400 kilos, has two heads, two necks and two spines but only one body.
The doctors say that they only came to know the woman was carrying conjoined twins after an ultrasound two weeks ago but it was too late to do anything by then.
Now the baby is born and the doctors do their best to save the girl and as they hope to operate once her condition is more stable.
Conjoined twins who share a single body have dicephalic parapagus - an extremely unusual form of conjoinment.
The are genetically identical, and are, therefore, always the same sex.
They develop from the same fertilized egg, and they share the same amniotic cavity and placenta.
Now they share the same body and it is not possible to separate dicephalic parapagus twins.
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