Baby In India Born With Eight Limbs

[Doodle]

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A toddler born with eight limbs and believed by some to be the reincarnation of the multi-limbed Hindu goddess Vishnu, is set to undergo a 40-hour operation to remove half of her limbs.

Lakshmi Tatma was born joined to a 'parasitic twin' and will go under the knife at the hands of 30 surgeons to remove two of her useless arms and legs.

Lakshmi can not walk or crawl and is unlikely to survive her teens without surgery

The headless 'twin' is joined to Lakshmi at the pelvis and has its own spinal column and kidney.

Without the operation the little girl would never be able to walk or crawl and would be unlikely to live past her early teens, doctors said.

The extraordinary eight-limbed baby was born in a poverty-stricken region of Bihar, India - on the day devoted to the celebration of the four-armed Hindu deity Vishnu.

Lakshmi's body is joined with the parasitical twin which is attached to her body at her pelvis
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Her mother Poonam Tatma said she believed her daughter was "a miracle, a reincarnation" of Vishnu.

Dr Sharan Patil, who will be leading the surgery at the country's Narayana Health City, in Bangalore, said: "Fortunately, Lakshmi has one complete body with a near perfect set of organs.

"Her skeletal system involves two bodies which are fused together at the level of the pelvis.

"The operation itself, although presents several challenges, is not the most complex in the world. What is highly unusual in Lakshmi's case is precisely how her bodies are fused, almost mirroring each other."

Poonam, who gave birth to Lakshmi on the celebration day of the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity after whom the new born was named, said: "She is a miracle, a special blessing from God. But she is my daughter and she cannot live like this."

Laskhmi is the subject of a Channel 4 documentary as part of the Bodyshocks series.

That...that looks creepy. o_o
Weird way to be joined with your twin. Plus the twin is just half of a body.

[StarWindWizard7]

It was bound to happen.
j/k

*gets sympathy pains all over*

[Redpaige13]

Is that the same baby from a few years ago?  ...  Obviously, not like two 8-legged kids would be born in that short amount of time.

Anyways, I remember hearing about her.  During Art class, my teacher started talking about her. 
This one woman in class, I am seriously convinced that she never, ever grew up past 14-years-old in her mind.  She blurted out that instead of the kid having her legs removed, she should instead be in Horror and Sci-Fi movies. 

So many people in the class wanted to sock in the face her after she said that.  Although they probably wanted to punch her because she was morbidly disgusting.

Either way, I thought even less of her than I already did once she said that.

[jnfs2014]

It's a bird!
It's a plane!
  It's Spider-Baby that needs its extra limbs removed!

[Tsumaru]

Goddarnit, Doodle, this is two years old.

TWO.

[Silverhawk79]

Octomom, meet Octobaby.

[Mario583]

It's a bird!
It's a plane!
  It's Spider-Baby that needs its extra limbs removed!

...
Terrible.

[Jono2]

now theres two octomoms

[Matt]

*Coughfreakcough*, kidding. Anyways, old news... also didn't Vaatix tell you to stop making these crappy news threads with hardly enough content?

[Macawmoses]

Last updated at 14:22pm on 05.11.07

Great thread. A++++

Would lock again.