India - Baby Having 2 Heads Born - Seriously

[lawstudent]

Conjoined twins are always two different people in the most literal sense because the cause is 2 separate eggs fusing after splitting (or perhaps incompletely splitting).

The extent of the fusion obviously varies. You know how in My Big Fat Greek Wedding the aunt tell the story about finding a set of teeth in her body? That happens - you wouldn't really conceptualize that as another person, but it technically is or at least was. The one functioning body can be a mix of both twin's organs if they each only have partial development.

ETA: I don't think you can ever really have "extra" anything because it doesn't work genetically. People who are born with "extra" limbs that aren't the vestiges of a twin don't seem to have any functional limbs - the functional one split into two nonfunctional ones. No one seems to have 3 fully formed legs or arms that aren't the result of a twin.

 

[TGIRecovered]

The article says that they died of heart failure and respiratory problems. They had separate necks, spines and esophagus but shared a heart and lungs.


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[Elley Mae]

Conjoined twins are always two different people in the most literal sense because the cause is 2 separate eggs fusing after splitting (or perhaps incompletely splitting).

The extent of the fusion obviously varies. You know how in My Big Fat Greek Wedding the aunt tell the story about finding a set of teeth in her body? That happens - you wouldn't really conceptualize that as another person, but it technically is or at least was. The one functioning body can be a mix of both twin's organs if they each only have partial development.

ETA: I don't think you can ever really have "extra" anything because it doesn't work genetically. People who are born with "extra" limbs that aren't the vestiges of a twin don't seem to have any functional limbs - the functional one split into two nonfunctional ones. No one seems to have 3 fully formed legs or arms that aren't the result of a twin.

Oh yeah have heard/seen the parasitic twin.
But teeth are also in tumors, article below.

Baby's Rare Brain Tumor Had Teeth

http://www.livescience.com/43706-brain-tumor-teeth.html

 

[jjenny]

Conjoined twins are always two different people in the most literal sense because the cause is 2 separate eggs fusing after splitting (or perhaps incompletely splitting).

The extent of the fusion obviously varies. You know how in My Big Fat Greek Wedding the aunt tell the story about finding a set of teeth in her body? That happens - you wouldn't really conceptualize that as another person, but it technically is or at least was. The one functioning body can be a mix of both twin's organs if they each only have partial development.

ETA: I don't think you can ever really have "extra" anything because it doesn't work genetically. People who are born with "extra" limbs that aren't the vestiges of a twin don't seem to have any functional limbs - the functional one split into two nonfunctional ones. No one seems to have 3 fully formed legs or arms that aren't the result of a twin.

Not two separate eggs. One egg incompletely splitting. Or one egg splitting and then fusing back together. It has to be one egg because they are identical twins.

 

[jjenny]

You know when I saw the pic I thought it looked more like one person that had two heads. I didn't see conjoined twins, if you will. I am not going to search for info, Thank you SeekingJana for that information. But I do wonder if they were, how shall I say... euthanized. So Sad.

No, they weren't euthanized. They died from heart failure. One heart can not support two heads. So their prognosis was never good.
The American twins who survived have two hearts, not one.

 

[Elley Mae]

Twins born in Brazil with two heads, one heart

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-16300314

 

[Steely Dan]

Maybe that's better for them in the long run. :sigh:

 

[K_Z]

Twins born in Brazil with two heads, one heart

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-16300314

I was curious how long the Brazil twins lived. I found one source that quoted them as being alive at 6 months. Cannot find anything after that. It seems the parents lived deep in the rainforest, and were happy to take the twins home to care for them.

I also found a dicephalic parapagus set of Chinese newborn twins in recent years, but no follow up available to see if they lived beyond a few days.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/conjoined-twins-born-in-china-can-they-be-separated/


There is a living male set of dicephalic parapagus twins in India at an orphanage, at age 9 or 10, remarkably similar to the Hensel twins. (They are boys, despite the appearance of a white scrunchie in their hair.)

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-twins-who-share-a-body

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/twins-who-share-body-channel-4-documentary-416870

 

[lawstudent]

Not two separate eggs. One egg incompletely splitting. Or one egg splitting and then fusing back together. It has to be one egg because they are identical twins.

Yes, thanks for the correction. I meant to say embryos.

 

[Linda7NJ]

Oh yeah have heard/seen the parasitic twin.

But teeth are also in tumors, article below.



Baby's Rare Brain Tumor Had Teeth



http://www.livescience.com/43706-brain-tumor-teeth.html

Fascinating!


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