A girl with two heads and three legs was born in the Philippines A child with a rather surprising anomaly was born on the Philippine island of Leyte.
A newborn girl has two heads and three legs. The baby weighs four kilograms. The doctors stated that, despite the presence of extra body parts, the child is healthy: the girl's heart and digestive organs are functioning normally.
According to the doctors themselves, initially they were of the opinion that the 27-year-old woman in labor would have twins. Only during the caesarean section it became clear that the experts were wrong in their forecast, Interfax reports, citing local media. According to medical experts, such an anomaly could occur due to the genetic characteristics of the body or exposure to medications that the expectant mother took during pregnancy. Currently, there is only one girl with two heads in the world.
She is the conjoined dicephalous twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel. The sisters have one torso, two arms, two legs, and three lungs. Each has its own heart and stomach, but the blood supply between them is common. Two spinal cords end in one pelvis, and all organs below the waist are also common. Each sister controls an arm and a leg on her side, and each only feels touched on her side of the body. Nevertheless, the girls learned to coordinate their movements well. They can walk, run, ride a bike and swim. The sisters learned to sing and play the piano, with one playing the right hand and the other with the left. Such twins are very rare. Only four pairs of surviving dicephalic twins are recorded in the archives.
