Baby With Two Faces in India

Baby with two faces? Yes she was born in a northern Indian village, Saini Sunpura, 25 miles east of New Delhi. The baby was delivered normally on March 11 and now being worshipped and believed by the local villagers as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess. Rural India is deeply superstitious and the little girl is being hailed as a return of the Hindu goddess of valor, Durga, (fiery deity traditionally depicted with three eyes and many arms) people are visiting every day to see and to touch babies feet out of respect, others offer money and believed to receive blessings in return.

The baby had extremely rare condition known as craniofacial duplication, where a single head has two faces The parents have refused to allow doctors to perform a CAT scan or MRI to determine the extent of child’s deformity, even though with those conditions the babies can drinks milk from her two mouths and opens and shuts all the four eyes at one time, according to the mother.

But she’s not alone there is one two year old Indian girl born also with a parasitic twin which caused her to have four arms and four legs viewed also as the reincarnation of a goddess. But the parents allowed the doctors to perform operation and being released now with excellent condition.

According to a study Parasitic twins occur once in every 500,000 births, and their survival rate is about 2%.