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The baby, Lali, apparently has an extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces. Except for her ears, all of Lali’s facial features are duplicated — she has two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes.
“My daughter is fine — like any other child,” said Vinod Singh, 23, a poor farm worker.
Lali has caused a sensation in the dusty village of Saini Sunpura, 25 miles east of New Delhi. When she left the hospital, eight hours after a normal delivery on March 11, she was swarmed by villagers, said Sabir Ali, the director of Saifi Hospital.
Up to 100 people have been visiting Lali at her home every day to touch her feet out of respect, offer money and receive blessings, Singh told AP.
“She drinks milk from her two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time,” Ali said.
If this baby survives, she will certainly have an extraordinary life. What if she had been born in the U.S. where superstitious tradition is not as strong as in India?
Jim,
Ultrasounds are not precise enough to detect a deformity like this in the first trimester. The baby weighs around 1/2 oz and is only a couple of inches long in week 12.
More likely it could be caught later during the second trimester.