Australian Gave Birth To [two-faced Baby]

2023 Author: Abraham Higgins | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-11-27 23:16

Australian gave birth to [two-faced baby]

A resident of Sydney (Australia) gave birth to daughters - Siamese twins, sharing one body, internal organs and a cranium. There are two identical faces on the skull and two separate brains inside. Despite the fact that newborns have one head and one body, their parents consider them two separate girls and have already given them the names Faith (faith) and Hope (hope).

Two-faced Janus. Coin depicting a Roman deity from the site livius.org /

A resident of Sydney (Australia) gave birth to daughters - Siamese twins, sharing one body, internal organs and a cranium. There are two identical faces on the skull and two separate brains inside, News.com.au reports.

Despite the fact that the newborns born on May 8 have one head and one body, the parents, Renee Young and Simon Howie, consider them two separate girls and have already given them the names Faith (faith) and Hope (hope).

Faith and Hope are the result of an extremely rare anomaly in embryonic development called disrosopus, or craniofacial duplication. Only less than 40 such cases are known in history. The last of them was in India in 2008. They all ended in the death of babies shortly after birth. It is believed that disrosopus occurs due to incomplete separation of embryos due to abnormal activity of the SHH gene, which plays a key role in the formation of craniofacial structures during embryonic development.

Young and Howie, who already have seven children in common, learned about the intrauterine fetal anomaly at the 19th week of pregnancy, but decided to refuse abortion. According to the mother, the girls feel good, breathe and eat on their own. Doctors, meanwhile, refuse to make predictions about their further development and condition.