A snip off Oprah

After her fertility treatments, Egyptian Naglaa Mohamed felt blessed when she found out she was pregnant with twins. However, the pregnancy was difficult, and Naglaa often was left extremely tired and weak. But it wasn't until the delivery the doctors discovered something was terribly wrong. Just minutes after the first baby, Manar, was born, doctors faced serious complications with the remaining twin.

Doctors performed an emergency C-section and quickly learned that the second baby was conjoined…attached at the head!

However, that's not all! The twins had the most unusual birth defect in the world. There are only 10 documented cases in history of craniopagus parasiticus, where one of the conjoined twins fails to fully develop a body. The head of the attached child—later named Islaam—was fully developed with eyes, a nose, mouth and even a brain. It was able to blink and smile but was not able to survive on its own.

"If you look to the babies from the front, you can see quite clearly Manar has her own face, but from the side she's completely attached to her other twin," says Dr. Abla El Alfi, one of the doctors involved in the procedure to detach Islaam from Manar. "Islaam had completely different reactions than Manar. Sometimes Manar was smiling and Islaam was crying. And you can see the different facial reactions of the two babies."

(Eew. sick!) I'm quite amazed at the frequency of such conjoined deformity births in the Middle East. I mean think, Ahmed and Mohhamed, the conjoined twins from Palestine? I hope I remembered the country correctly. If not, must be some country that ends with -stine or -stan. Anyway, Sheng thinks it's cos of the high levels of radiation there. Apparently, we developed countries love to test our nukes there and so the increased radiation results in absurd levels of cell mutation. And hence wala! An abundance of freak shows for you.

Btw, did you notice that thet gave the babies only two names - Islam and Manar? Shouldn't there be another name? Lest the third parasitic head feel left out. Since his conjoined brother has a name and he doesn't and since he can apparently think on his own. Hahahhaha.

Damn I am so mean.