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2 faced baby :O

lobs211 — Mon, 12 May 2014 12:16:47 GMT

OMG just OMG!

Poor little thing (s)

She knew at 19 weeks - i wouldnt have had it/ them - whatever u call em

They have 7 other kids too!

What a battle 😞

Re: 2 faced baby :O

lobs211 — Mon, 12 May 2014 12:23:41 GMT

Im sitting up here at the hospital bored shirtless LOL

No big deal - just waiting on some idiot to get stiched up, playing on this here ipad!

I am not over this baby 😞 Looks like the eyes are joined OMG!

Re: 2 faced baby :O

cherry*135 — Mon, 12 May 2014 13:49:53 GMT

We had a thread on that awhile ago, based on a newspaper interview with the parents. The baby isn't expected to live very long due to its condition.

Is this baby in the hosp you are in?

Re: 2 faced baby :O

azureline** — Mon, 12 May 2014 21:40:27 GMT

How sad for all of them. 😞

Re: 2 faced baby :O

azureline** — Mon, 12 May 2014 21:47:40 GMT

Ms Young, who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis, was 15 weeks and two days into her pregnancy when doctors broke the news and too far along to abort the child – not that the couple considered it an option.

She must give birth to the child whether it is terminated or not and said she would rather give their daughter - or "daughters", as they consider there to be two children - the best chance of survival.

"It'd be the same as being a child with autism or down syndrome … I don't believe in terminating the baby if it's healthy and growing fine, and everything is going to plan," Mr Howie said.

"Renee was the same."

But Mr Howie said doctors disagreed, urging the parents of seven to terminate their unborn child "because it would be looked upon as a freak".

"We've got a really big family, we don't really involve ourselves in the community except for schools where the children are. We have a good family base … it gives us a lot of support," Mr Howie said.

Maternal foetal specialist Greg Kesby has seen several conjoined twins in his career but none quite like this.

"It's probably the rarest of all the conjoined twins, you'd be thinking numbers of one in a million to one in two million for this kind of anomaly," he said.

Dr Kesby said there was a good chance the couple's child would not survive to a live birth but if she did, treatment could prove costly.

But the soon-to-be family of 10, which lives in a four-bedroom social housing block and rely on a disability and carer's pensions as income, said they would cross that bridge as it comes.

Nothing like the same, imo. 😞

Re: 2 faced baby :O

lobs211 — Mon, 12 May 2014 22:55:33 GMT

No Am, im in Bendigo Victoria.

I didnt see the other thread, I just saw pics of the little thing on the ipad, on news

Az I think its really sad too but I know I wouldnt have gone through with it.

And comparing to Downes?? Hmmmm

Well good luck to em