Two-Headed Baby

[hepcat]

Doctors at a hospital in Anajas delivered Maria de Nazare's baby boy - weighing him in at 9.9Ibs and completely healthy, but noticed the boy had two heads.

Ms Nazare, a 25-year-old from a rural area in Para, did not receive an ultrasound during her pregnancy, resulting in doctors having to run a series of tests on the newborn once they discovered its abnormalities.

The results of the test showed the baby, named Emanoel and Jesus, had two spines but shared the same heart, lungs, liver and pelvis.

'When doctors scanned her they realised the baby had two heads and that a normal birth would be a great risk both for mother and baby,' hospital director Claudionor Assis de Vasconcelos told Brazil's O Povo newspaper.

'The caesarean took an hour because the baby was sitting down.

'Despite all the problems we have as a small interior hospital we managed to save both mother and baby, which was our aim. And for us it was a great surprise to find out that the child was in really good health.'

Emanoel and Jesus are conjoined twins with the condition dicephalic parapagus - a deformity that sees twins share one body, as opposed to being two different bodies conjoined at a specific point.

Ms Nazare showed no sign of disappointment at the child's condition, as she continued to feed both heads and care for the child.

Mother and son were flown off to a specialist hospital in the state capital of Belem for further medical tests.

In 2010 Sueli Ferreira was the first woman in Brazil to gave birth to a two-headed baby. Unfortunately the child didn't survive due to a lack of oxygen to one of the heads.

Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/885568-two-headed-baby-born-in-brazil#ixzz1hH6C7ONr

[Guest]

one on each boob?

[Darth Biscuit]

Crazy... if they survive, what kind of life will they have?

[Doyle]

When they have sex it will be a tag team every time. It will be constant high fives.

[hepcat]

Which head will control the limbs? Will the fight for it?

[Disinfranchised]

I was born with two heads. Matter of fact, I still have two heads. One has no brain, but still seems to think for me at times.

[cookinwithgas]

Emanuel is gonna always be jealous of Jesus - Mom likes you best! Why didn't she name ME Jesus?

[Panthers128]

If I had been born that way I'd have rather been put down. Never understood why people have these freak show babies.

I know Catholicism is popular in Brazil...

[Panthro]

I bet this is one of those mexican wolf boys children

[The Saltman]

Awww poor kids

[Panthro]

Of course Saltman could be one of those wolf boys...

[The Saltman]

Come on now I shaved last month.

[Chimera]

Cool. Will they get two separate drivers licenses also?

[sharkkiller]

What happens if one of them is gay, and the other is not?