An Indian mother has given birth to conjoined twins who have two sets of hands but share one pair of legs. The twins - a boy and girl - also share nearly every vital organ. Their mother, Shivrajo Devi, 24, gave birth at a private clinic in a village in Buxar, Bihar, eastern India, on Wednesday evening. However their condition soon began to deteriorate and they were moved to Sadar Hospital in the city where medics gave them preliminary treatment in neo-natal intensive care unit.
The twins - a boy and girl - have two sets of hands but share one pair of legs and share nearly every vital organ. Doctors say their condition is stable but they need special care - and their chance of survival is slim. Once their condition stabilised, doctors sent the twins to a bigger hospital three hours away. But their devastated parents have now been told any further treatment will need to take place in Delhi. Unable to afford travel or the high cost of medical treatment, the couple say they have been forced to simply take the babies home.
The babies parents said they had no idea she was carrying conjoined twins, despite thorough check-ups throughout her pregnancy including ultrasounds. Their devastated mother, Shivrajo Devi, said: 'I cannot believe my children are fused together.
I'm heartbroken'. Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate. But when a conjoined twin has sex with a third person, is the sex—by virtue of the conjoinment—incestuous? Group sex?
Well, it definitely is sex. You can tell because everyone wants to talk about it. Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. This happens when the fertilised egg 'loses' one of the copies of the Y chromosome when it is dividing into two embryos in very early development. The resulting babies are then male XY and female XO. The normal genetic make-up of a girl is XX.
An XO baby is outwardly a girl, but her cells only have one copy of the X chromosome. This condition is called Turner Syndrome more information on this, see the following link: Turner Syndrome. Email: info twins. Privacy Policy.
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