Two-headed baby found in ditch

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Medics are caring for an abandoned two-headed baby dumped in an irrigation ditch by his mother.

Police in Hanzhuang, central China, found the hours-old infant after reports of a baby crying in the middle of the night.

Doctors say the tot has one fully formed head and another, smaller, head with only partially formed features.

I wonder if he will have surgery to take the second 'head' off...

I wonder if the second head has a working brain.

unskilled78 wrote:

I wonder if the second head has a working brain.

That's what I'm wondering too, but I'd find that highly unlikely.

I wonder how easy that surgery is going to be, the two heads seem to be joined at the skull.

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When officers picked him up they at first did not realise he had the
defamation and thought it was just rubbish stuck to the child - then
they realised that the baby had the deformation and took him straight
to the hospital

imagine what the jackass who figured out it was an extra head felt like.
he was probably touching it and all, trying to get it off the kid's head.
gross.

...Something silly but offensive on the tip of my tongue but there's too much tension in the air and I don't want to start a really unnecessary wankfest.

But seriously, poor baby. Ditches are no place to be left. The worst part is that it said the baby was only "hours" old which meant they took one look at it and chucked it out.

Eeeek.

Mafiosa wrote:

...Something silly but offensive on the tip of my tongue but there's too much tension in the air and I don't want to start a really unnecessary wankfest.

But seriously, poor baby. Ditches are no place to be left. The worst part is that it said the baby was only "hours" old which meant they took one look at it and chucked it out.

Eeeek.

This is China, after all; the parents only get one shot at this, it's too late to abort, and child abandonment (or putting it up for adoption) is illegal. So, honestly, no big surprise here.

There's different ways a baby can be born with two heads.

When I saw this thread, I thought of this documentary:

Okay now that one is just gross.

And here I was all ready to yell at Mal for using links from the Sun again. Wow.

I'll admit it, when I first saw this thread title I lol'd. No idea why, prolly imagining the sod who found it's reaction.

But yeah, china, what ya gonna do.

There's always problems. The family would have been seriously freaked out by two heads. One chance at a baby, and it all suddenly takes a sharp turn into weirdsville.

They probably didn't know what to do. It might even have been a single mother given this nasty fright.

I hope the baby will be okay. It depends what kind of siamese twin it is.