Ella Rose Riehle is extremely lucky. That's because she won't forget here birthday. All she needs to do is count - 8,9,10 and 11,12. Ella Rose was born on 8/9/10 at 11:12 PM. Her mother Terri Riehle from Cincinatti, USA was happy that she will not get her kid's birthday mixed up.
That day, she was hoping for the 11:12 a.m time slot, but when that time came & went, everyone started guessing when the baby would arrive. By 11 p.m., she started experiencing intense labor pains, and at the one-in-a-million time, baby Ella Rose came into this world. Terri recalls looking at the clock and seeing: 11:12.
Baby Kamani Hubbard was born with twelve fingers in both his hands and feet. All his fingers look normal that the doctors and nurses didn't noticed. It was only his Dad, who has also an extra finger as a child, who noticed it.
His condition is called Polydactyly. But Baby Kamani Hubbard's case is extremely rare because all his fingers looks normal and functioning properly.
A two-faced baby born in India has 4 eyes, 2 noses, 2 mouths, 2 ears. According to the doctors, baby appears to be healthy but can't tell to what extent because the parents refused to submit the child for CT-scan.
Like Lakshmi Tatma, the new born is revered as a reincarnated god by her local villagers, who sing and dance regularly for her.
Here's a video of Sanju Bhagat's Operation to Remove his Parasitic Twin. Sanju carried his twin in his stomach for nearly four decades without even knowing it. It was only during the surgery that the doctors discover what's inside his stomach. I have to warn you that the video contains graphic images.
Year 2008 has not yet ended so you could name your baby with one of the most famous names of the year. Here's a list to choose from the top ten baby girl and boy names of 2008.
Bao Xishun is not just the world's tallest man recognized by the Guinness Book of record for the second time, he is also a proud father of a baby boy, making him the world's tallest dad instantly.
His wife, Xia Shujuan, gave birth to a healthy 4.2kg baby at a hospital in Zunhua, China.
It remains to be seen whether their son will take after Bao or 5ft 5in Xia on the height front. However big he grows, however, it seems likely that he'll be able to settle playground disputes with a confident claim that 'my dad is bigger than your dad.'
A 27- year-old Egyptian woman named Ghazala Khamis gives birth to Septuplets or seven babies via Ceasarean section. The babies, four boys and three girls are now in stable condition. Ghazala who has three daughters, took fertility drugs in order to have a son. Lucky for the parents because Egypt's health minister will shoulder the milk and diapers of the seven babies for two years.
"This is a very rare pregnancy — something I have never witnessed over my past 33 years in this profession," Darwish told The Associated Press by phone from the hospital.
Darwish decided to carry out the Caesarean section at the end of Khamis' eighth month of pregnancy due to the pressure on her kidneys. He said Khamis, who already has three daughters, took fertility drugs in an effort to have a son.
A premature 610-gram baby comes back to life after it was pronounced dead and was put into a freezer for five hours. Premature infants of this weight and age have only 10 percent survival.
The father, Ali Majdub, told Channel 2 that his wife realized the child was alive after asking to see her dead daughter one last time.
"When we unwrapped the baby to see her, she realized it was moving. I began screaming and ran with it toward the doctors," he said.
She was then rushed to the neonatal intensive care unit, where doctors are fighting for her life.
"I was in shock," the mother told Channel 2 last night. "I thought I wasn't hearing it right when they said she was still alive."
Dr. Moshe Daniel, the hospital's deputy director, said that in his 35 years as a physician, he had "never heard of such a case. It was like a medical miracle."
Ame and Lia are not twins but the two are born on the same day (just minutes apart) to the same mother, 29-year-old Miss Spence. The five-month-old babies look like twins, but in fact they're not. They were conceived three weeks apart - a million-to-one medical rarity.
An explanation for this unusual case:The girls were conceived through a process known as superfetation, the term used to describe the formation of a foetus whilst another foetus is already present in the uterus.
This occurs when eggs from two separate menstrual cycles are released, as opposed to normal non-identical twins where more than one egg is released in a single cycle. Although common in animals it is rare in humans, but it can result in a twin or multiple pregnancy. It is diagnosed when the foetuses show a marked different in development. The girls are technically not twins. Identical twins occur when one egg splits into two and non-identical, or fraternal, twins occur when two eggs are released and fertilised at the same time.
Vanya Maryin was born with five-chamber heart, instead of four. The "Bee-boy", as doctors call him, have right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle and an extra left atrium. Wondering why he was called the "Bee-boy"? Because only bees have five-chamber heart. What's more extraordinary is that he comes from the beekeeper’s family.
Vanya was born not with 2 atriums like all the people on the Earth, but with an additional - third one. He could die anytime from a sudden push, fright or even happiness. But the body, adjusting to an unusual 5-chamber ‘bee-heart’, suggested the boy a saving, optimal ‘pose for life’.
Doctor Elena Nufer explains: ‘The boy’s heart had 5 chambers instead of 4. Usually the heart consists of the right atrium and the right ventricle, the left atrium and the left ventricle. Vanya had 2 left atriums with a thin, like polyethylene, but firm and impenetrable interseptum. This interseptum was noticed only during the cardiogram. At first nobody believed.
Born in Northern India, this baby girl with two faces is being worshiped by villagers. They think that the baby is a reincarnated god.
The girl was born on Monday at a hospital in the suburbs of Delhi, according IBNLive.com. Since then, people in her rural village have been singing and dancing — offering money and asking for her blessings, IBNLive.com reported.
Sanju Bhagat carried his parasitic twin in his stomach for nearly four decades. It so that long because his swollen stomach was mistakenly caused by a tumor. It was during an operation to remove the "tumor" in June 1999 that doctors discovered it was actually his twin brothers body that has been growing inside him. Here's the video of the operation.
"Basically, the tumor was so big that it was pressing on his diaphragm and that's why he was very breathless," said Dr. Ajay Mehta of Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai. "Because of the sheer size of the tumor, it makes it difficult [to operate]. We anticipated a lot of problems."
Mehta said that he can usually spot a tumor just after he begins an operation. But while operating on Bhagat, Mehta saw something he had never encountered. As he cut deeper into Bhagat's stomach, gallons of fluid spilled out -- and then something extraordinary happened.
"To my surprise and horror, I could shake hands with somebody inside," he said. "It was a bit shocking for me."
Layton and Kaydon Richardson, a British twin boys has been born with different skin color. According to experts, it is a rare occurrence among twins. They were born in the United Kingdom at James Cook University Hospital on July 23, 2006
Mother says, "When they were first born, no one really noticed anything unusual as they were both practically the same colour. But over the last few months Layton has got lighter and blonder like his dad and Kaydon has gone darker like me."
According to Mom, the boys attract a lot of attention where ever they go. But Kerry, 27, does not mind the youngsters grabbing the spotlight and thinks it just proves her babies are even more special.
A UK woman with two wombs is believed to be the first in the world with the condition to give birth to triplets.
Hannah Kersey, 23, from Northam in Devon, had identical twins Ruby and Tilly, who were born from one womb, Grace, who was born from the other.
The girls had to stay in hospital for nine weeks after being born seven weeks early by Caesarean, but have now returned home to their parents.
The odds of having triplets from two wombs are about 25 million to one.
The chances of a woman with two wombs having twins or two separate births is estimated to be five million to one. Against the odds
Only 70 women in the world are known to have been pregnant in two wombs, reports suggest.
The condition, which is actually called uterus didelphys, affects one in 1,000 women in the UK.
In Miss Kersey's case, the babies were conceived from two eggs - one in each womb - which were fertilised at the same time by two different sperm.
One egg then divided, producing identical twins, while the other developed into a single baby.
Hannah and her partner Mick Faulkner said they were "over the moon" at how healthy and happy the girls are.
Hannah said: "They are three lovely and incredible children, all with very different personalities.
"Gracie seems to be the ringleader - maybe because she grew up in her own womb.
"Ruby is very laid back and quiet, happy to sit and watch what is happening around her.
"Tilly, who was the baby that struggled to survive inside me, is a real fighter, wanting to keep up with her sisters and not be left out."
Dr Simon Grant, a consultant at Southmead Hospital who delivered the babies, said: "There are very few world firsts nowadays, but it may be one."
Mr Ellis Downes, consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at Chase Farm Hospital in London, said: "It is quite amazing. Women with two wombs have conceived a baby in each womb before but never twins in one and a singleton in the other."
Leading expert Mr Peter Bowen-Simpkins added: "For a woman to spontaneously conceive and give birth in this way is a real rarity. They have been extremely fortunate."
Mr Richard Warren of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said most cases occur naturally, but the condition can run in families.
A German woman aged 64 has given birth to a healthy baby girl, a national record and her first child after years of unfruitful attempts and false pregnancies, a report says.
"Mother and child are doing well," Dr Elias Karam at the Aschaffenburg clinic in southern Bavaria said, quoted by the website of Der Spiegel weekly.
The baby was born on Thursday by caesarian section and weighed two kilograms, the report said.
While the woman became the oldest German to given birth, it was far from a world record.
At the end of 2006, a Spanish woman of 67 gave birth to twins, pipping the record made the year before by another twin-bearer, this time a 66-year-old Romanian. The German birth came thanks to the donation of ovules by a 25-year-old donor but used the sperm of her husband, who is also aged 64, Spiegel Online reports.
The ovule operation happened abroad because it is banned in Germany, the report said.
"This woman came to me because she needed my help. As a doctor, I gave it without question," Dr Karam said. Source
Just 1oz short of the Jack Herman, this another Boyzilla weighed at 14 pounds at birth
"I couldn't understand why he wasn't coming easily," said Miss Ellerton, who gave birth naturally with only gas and air to help her.
"Once his head appeared I could see the surprise on everyone's faces. It was very painful but it was all worth it for our big bundle of joy."
Shaune is still less than a week old and is already the size of a six-month-old. He is two-feet long and, in the age-old unit of baby weight, the equivalent of seven bags of sugar.
Miss Ellerton, 24, whose other children Alex John, four, and Amy Louise, two, weighed around 8lbs each, said nothing had prepared her for the size of the task.
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