From the largest to the smallest baby, even unnatural babies
like the cyclops and frog-like baby. These are medical mysteries from all over
the world!
44 pound Baby
This baby born in
Iran six months ago, currently
weighs an enormous 20 kilos (44 pounds)! The parents say the baby was born a
normal weight close to 8 pounds when he was born, but he keeps eating every
hour. The Iranian doctors do not know what this eating disorder is or where it
came from.
World's Smallest Baby: 21 weeks and six days
On October 24th 2006, Amillia Taylor was born at 21 weeks
and six days. No baby born at less than 23 weeks gestation had ever survived,
but 10 ounce Amillia was able to pull through (and even was trying to breath
and cry on her own at birth). Hospitals had initially hoped to release her
yesterday, but decided to keep the now healthy baby a few extra days for
observation. Her mother doesn't mind the wait, she's just proud and happy that Amillia is
healthy: "Even though she's only four pounds (1.8 kilos) now, she's plump
to me."
Cyclops Baby
On 2006, this baby was born with a only one eye in
India. Medical
staff who helped deliver the child believe that the child's condition was
caused by an experimental anti-cancer drug. Another cause written in the report
by the hospital was that it could also be the result of a chromosomal disorder.
The child was diagnosed with a rare chromosomal disorder, known as cyclopia.
She was born with a single eye in the center of her forehead, no nose and her
brain fused into a single hemisphere. With such severe deformities, it was a
miracle that the girl survived even a few minutes after delivery. The baby died
days later.
Frog-like Baby
On 2006, this bizarre-looking baby was born in Charikot, the
headquarters of Dolakha district, attracting a huge number of onlookers to
witness the astonishing sight. The neck-less baby with its head almost totally sunk into the upper part of the
body and with extraordinarily large eyeballs literally popping out of the
eye-sockets, was born to Nir Bahadur Karki and Suntali Karki at the
Gaurishnkar Hospital in Charikot. The Karki couple
is a permanent resident of Dolakha's Bhirkot VDC. The bizarre baby, however, died after half an hour of its birth, Suntali, the
mother, informed. It was taken to the hospital after its death. The news about
such a baby being brought to the hospital spread like wildfire and there were
hundreds gathered at the hospital to have a look. The police had to be deployed
to control the crowd.
Baby with Three Arms
This 2-month-old baby named Liu Junjie from
Anhui Province, China, was born with a third arm on
2006. Doctors successfully removed the extremely rare and well-developed third
arm, but the baby required long-term physical therapy to gain function in his
remaining hand, which has no palm and flexes in either direction. "We're
hoping to exchange information with doctors who've dealt with similar cases
anywhere in the world," said Chen, head of the orthopedics department at
Shanghai Children's
Medical
Center. "This is so
rare that we have virtually no information to go on."
Born at 17 pounds
A Siberian woman who gave birth on 2007 to her 12th child
was stunned to find that little Nadia weighed in at a massive 17.1 lb (7.75kg).
"We were all simply in shock," said Nadia's mother, Tatyana
Barabanova, 43. "What did the father say? He couldn't say a thing - he
just stood there blinking." "I ate everything, we don't have the
money for special foods so I just ate potatoes, noodles and tomatoes," she
told the reporter, adding that all her previous babies had weighed more than 5
kg.
Even Larger : Born at 19.2 Pounds!
An Indonesian woman has given birth to a 19.2-pound boy, the
heaviest newborn ever recorded in the country.
Source : http://www.funonthenet.in
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