Baby With Two Faces Doing Well One Month After Birth

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The Sun   |   April 8, 2008 11:06 AM


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A BABY born with two faces is doing well one month on from her birth.

Tot Lali was born in a northern Indian village with two noses, two pairs of lips and two pairs of eyes - but only two ears.

Hundreds of pilgrims have visited Lali, worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, and her impoverished parents to touch her feet out of respect and receive blessings.

The baby has caused a sensation in the dusty village of Saini, 25 miles from New Delhi.

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Wow. This is amazing.
Based upon the headline I thought someone was being cute about Richardson.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:19 PM on 04/10/2008

Meanwhile, the other two-faced baby is losing the battle for the democratic party presidential nomination.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 PM on 04/10/2008

LOL! You got that right!!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:42 PM on 04/10/2008

"worshipped as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess," Just shows again that religion changes the mind of man into believing all sorts of nonsense.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:03 PM on 04/10/2008

I understand the suspicions about Union Carbide in Bhopal, but why the assumption that this is a pollution-induced deformity? This seems like an extreme case of conjoined twins. The embryo started to split but didn't complete the process.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:25 PM on 04/10/2008

Substitution
Mass Confusion...................
........SHOCK TREATMENT.........................................................................................................................................................ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy thats another guy!
howq does he sing my alibi?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:31 AM on 04/10/2008

Ariana, don't you have any compassion, take this down, its been up long enough, and this family deserves their privacy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:40 AM on 04/10/2008

This is nothing but a modern day freak show. Tasteless.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:55 PM on 04/09/2008

Freak show ? She's just unlucky to be born to a world full of people like you.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:30 AM on 04/10/2008


On the other hand ... I wonder about that tumerous-looking growth between the faces, with a DIMPLE, for the love of the uncanny. It looks like it's getting bigger as the child gets older. Will it pose problems? Can plastic surgeons remove that unholy swelling?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:27 PM on 04/09/2008

Ya get pregnant and ya never know what you'll end up with. wow.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:54 PM on 04/09/2008

One reason for all the publicity this child is getting is probably due to the fact that babies born with this condition -- diprosopus -- are stillborn or rarely survive for more than a few days maximum following birth. Also remarkable is the way the culture treats the deformed. If this child had been born in medieval KKKristian Europe, she would have been killed as devil spawn. The Hindus, in contrast, make her a living goddess. It's a lesson in tolerance that the intolerance of KKKristian-driven western culture could use.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:16 PM on 04/09/2008

You are very uneducated if you think hindus and india is tolerant. What about the caste system? What about the "untouchables?"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:53 PM on 04/10/2008

TTTrue

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:31 PM on 04/09/2008

KKKrap

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:00 PM on 04/09/2008

I know there are deformed babies all over the world, but it seems that India in particular has had quite a few of late. Is there anything specific about their environment or physiology that is causing this?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:20 PM on 04/09/2008

I have no idea. I've noticed the same phenomena also. I can't help but wonder if it is mother natures way of telling the human race that we have overpopulated this plant and it's time to stop destroying the environment or else it will be us that suffers.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:01 PM on 04/10/2008

No. India's population exceeds one-billion. That alone would increase the number of abnormalities despite the fact the percentage of the mutations is probably no more than any other country.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:52 PM on 04/09/2008

Bhopal?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:57 PM on 04/09/2008

That was certainly a very tragic chemical disaster, but is the incidence of these tragic children confined to the state of Madhya Pradesh?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:40 PM on 04/09/2008

Don't eat the CURRY! Water maybe... GODLESS CULTURE...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:58 PM on 04/09/2008

another republican

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:33 PM on 04/09/2008

I think they're thinking of naming her Dow.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:27 PM on 04/09/2008

Dear Huffpo

why do you keep posting stories of deformed girls from India? Why are you taking the dignity away of a child who obviously does not have the power to speak for herself? Are there no deformed babies in the US that you can post? Shine the mirror on yourself before you try to make freaks out of people that look different than you. Or better yet, let these kids live in dignity.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:58 PM on 04/09/2008

The whole point of the story seems to be that the child DOES have dignity, granted to her by a culture that tolerates and even honors what we call deformed.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:49 PM on 04/09/2008

Some people hold her in reverence and touch her feet to receive her blessings. Then others make crass jokes that aren't funny but sick.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:38 AM on 04/09/2008

I couldn't read the links but I'm curious to know do the 2 mouths go to the same throat/espogus, will the mouths talk double or will one talk and then the other talk? And what about the vision?
It must be rather panoramic.
The child should be called Janus.

Reminds one of the folk tale 'One Eyes, Two Eyes, Three Eyes'

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:18 AM on 04/09/2008

Deformed baby pictures should be seen. Have been hidden or exploited for all time out of site.
When our returning soldier start having these baby's will we get pictures.

I have seen no such photos of baby's that are being born right now in Iraq with horrific birth defect.

Just like no dead soldier photos?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:16 AM on 04/09/2008

Ok, can we all grow the fuck up? No matter what caused this deformity, the baby is here. And I can appreciate that her culture accepts her, when must would have shunned her. She's clearly a very beautiful baby, and just had the misfortune of being born this way. Most of you who proclaim christianity as your religion should appreciate this child's birth, because I know a lot of womae would have contemplated abortion after an ultrasound. To make fun of an infant, a child who can't defend herself is weak and disgusting.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:09 AM on 04/09/2008

Agreed RedBirdy,

To attack the defenseless is the mark of a coward. We should address the reasons this occurred to prevent it from happening over and over again - which it does.

Her life will be very difficult, for whatever length fate has chosen it to be. It is a test for the rest of us, to see how we respond. Some will fail at this, revealing who and what they truly are.

The quality of the air, food and water in some nations is beyond bad. We tend to our "Brothers and sisters" poorly. We are unfit parents of this world.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:35 PM on 04/09/2008

This is why prenatal care is essential.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:05 AM on 04/09/2008

She should come to America and join the Democratic Leadership Council where two-faced people seem to prosper quite well....

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:59 AM on 04/09/2008

Politicians.. name one who is honest. The rightwing has it's machivellian/straussian deceivers...I bet you even refuse to see it.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:05 PM on 04/10/2008

Another republican

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:33 PM on 04/09/2008

24 points for Chavezo8 & 0 for DLC plus HRC. No, I'm not going to repeat any face joke aimed at Hillary. McCain will do that sooner or later.
larry lynch

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:02 AM on 04/09/2008

LOL, wow, everyone look how clever Chavezo8 is! I will take Dem supposed "two facing" any day to a repubican's lies that cost this country how much?
(Cuz Re'pubic'ans are so NOT two faced with "Weapons of mass destruction" "167 million dollar war paid for by Iraq's own oil, so as not to cost the U.S. anything", "The levees are fine", "Oil will never reach $4.00 a gallon" "The dollar is strong!" shall I go on?

What the hell does India do to its waste that so many poor have these fucked up babies. I am sorry but yes, with prenatal care this would have been caught and should have been aborted. There will be no quality of life for this baby, if it already does not suffer tons of medical issues, the ostricizing it will get, after the god thing wears off and they want to marry and get a job and live normally.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:49 AM on 04/09/2008

Karrezza - ever hear of Dow Chemical or CocaCola? American companies have been doing business overseas - especially to non-whites, because they aren't subject to the same environmental restrictions as here. They use these poor countries as dumping grounds for litterally tons of toxic waste. Its one of the many reasons why so many people around the world hate us. These companies promise jobs and hide a hidden deadly agenda. Look up Bhopal. At least this little child is alive, not dead like so many of them. And Dow has never paid a dime for that holocaust.

Oh, and who consumes Coke products and Dow chemicals? YOU DO! Learn about corporatocracy and the American Empire, and the Repugnantcons who own them.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:15 PM on 04/09/2008

The child is beautiful, unlucky to be born into a world that will turn away instead of helping her. I pray that she receives help in every possible way and lives a long life, not looked upon as abnormal. To all you people who find this disgusting I hope somewhere down the line you grow up.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:31 AM on 04/09/2008

the best part of this is that here she would be looked down upon and treated as a "freak." In India she is a reincarnated goddess. What does that say about us?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:33 AM on 04/09/2008

Huff Post freak show...

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:32 AM on 04/09/2008

Here ya go, ya moke.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337492,00.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:52 AM on 04/09/2008

Considering the amount of man made pollution now circling and covering our planet there is sure to be a lot more tragic birth defects like this one.I remember the Bophal incident in India when an American Co. (Union Carbide) chemical plant unleashed a massive toxic cloud over the population of that city that killed and crippled thousands of people.
Now Iraq and the Middle East is polluted with "Depleted Uranium" (promising even more birth defects) that the Bush Regime has used by the thousands of tons,ostensibly to bring Good Ol'American "Democracy" to that region!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:28 AM on 04/09/2008
- Horst