Surgeons have been astonished by the medical rarity of a 26-year-old man trapped in the body of a two-year-old toddler.
Jerly Lyngdoh – who lives with his farmer parents in Meghalaya, northern India – looks like any other tot with his tiny head and delicate 2ft 9ins long body.
But it’s only when he opens his mouth to reveal a full set of adult teeth that the truth about the world’s oldest baby is revealed. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Kiran | Under Health, Science, Weirdness
Fetus in Fetu (FIF) is a rare and very mysterious medical condition that is said to have occurred (or at least is recorded to have occurred) less than ninety times throughout medical history.
For the little boy born in Tianjin’s Children Hospital in China, the second penis in the middle of his tiny back is a medical first and even weirder than some other instances of this highly unusual phenomenon.
The baby presented no problems when it came into the world with the help of midwives on May 27, 2008, at the Hejian Maternity Center, which is part of Tianjin Children’s Hospital.
What seemed like a routine birth, however, soon turned into a story from Ripley’s Believe it or Not, as midwives and medical staff could not have been more surprised to see a little boy endowed with a second penis in the middle of his back.
Born to farmer dad, Li Jun, 30, and his wife, who live in Central China’s Henan Province, the extra penis was safely removed.
Posted by Ali | Under Science, Society and People, Weirdness
An Indian woman burned her 2-month-old baby to death after her husband accused her of being unfaithful.
According to the Times of India, the woman, Gangamani, told Nizamabad police at Kotagiri mandal headquarters she doused her infant daughter with kerosene and set her on fire while she slept in the house yesterday.
The woman said she decided to kill her child because her husband, Ravinder, refused to accept the little girl. He suspected his wife was unfaithful. The couple had quarreled over the baby before the infant was set on fire. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Kiran | Under Crime and War, Society and People
Science: It sure can make those family relationships confusing.
A 61-year-old Japanese woman has given birth in Japan, which is extraordinary enough given her age. But this was no normal birth—the baby was her own grandchild. The Nagano hospital says the woman served as a surrogate mother for her own daughter, who does not have a uterus.
News reports are saying that the baby was born last year, despite the fact that the hospital didn’t announce it until today. That delay could have a lot to do with the attitude toward in vitro fertilization and surrogate births in Japan. They’re legal, but most hospitals and clinics won’t do them because the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology has banned its members from using the procedure. However, the doctor who runs the Nagano clinic in this case was booted from that organization a decade ago for providing in vitro fertilization for unmarried couples.
The hospital has not even divulged the baby’s sex, but says the birth went off without a hitch. Now all they have to do is figure out whose mother belongs to whom.
Posted by Ali | Under Society and People, Weirdness
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – A stillborn Israeli baby who was pronounced dead by doctors “came back to life” on Monday after spending hours in a hospital refrigerator.
The baby, weighing only 600 grams at birth, spent at least five hours inside one of the hospital’s refrigerated storage units, before her parents, who had taken her to be buried, began noticing some movement.
“We unwrapped her and felt she was moving. We didn’t believe it at first. Then she began holding my mother’s hand, and then we saw her open her mouth,” said 26-year-old Faiza Magdoub, the baby’s mother.
Posted by Ali | Under Society and People, Weirdness