two headed baby

In article ,
"jojo" wrote:

pictures of a two headed baby can only be released by a hospital if the
parents agree to it --- it doesn't 'just sort of happen'

What pictures? It was a tough article, but I didn't see any pictures nor
full names....
what gives?



I don't watch much TV news and yet I have seen twice while channel
surfing during commercials --

In article ,
Hope Munro Smith wrote:

"jojo" wrote in news:JxRUb.19718$Ku5.16759
@newssvr24.news.prodigy.com:


pictures of a two headed baby can only be released by a hospital if the
parents agree to it --- it doesn't 'just sort of happen'

What pictures? It was a tough article, but I didn't see any pictures nor
full names....
what gives?



USA's site has a photo:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...ion-usat_x.htm

To me this is an issue of the medical profession publicizing a rare and
difficult medical procedure, to which the parents agreed since they are
getting the treatment for their child for free.


this is a total pander --- why do people have to see these pictures
except for the usual pornographic reasons? think how this child is
going to love this following her around for the rest of her life --
pictures once publized are forever

Jenn wrote in
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In article ,
Hope Munro Smith wrote:

"jojo" wrote in
news:JxRUb.19718$Ku5.16759 @newssvr24.news.prodigy.com:


pictures of a two headed baby can only be released by a hospital
if the parents agree to it --- it doesn't 'just sort of happen'

What pictures? It was a tough article, but I didn't see any
pictures nor full names....
what gives?



USA's site has a photo:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/...ion-usat_x.htm

To me this is an issue of the medical profession publicizing a rare
and difficult medical procedure, to which the parents agreed since
they are getting the treatment for their child for free.


this is a total pander --- why do people have to see these pictures
except for the usual pornographic reasons? think how this child is
going to love this following her around for the rest of her life --
pictures once publized are forever

Will anyone really recognize her from photos taken in infancy before her
operation? It's just as interesting as any other unusual medical
condition and I think it should be in the news.

Jenn wrote in
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In article ,
"jojo" wrote:

pictures of a two headed baby can only be released by a hospital if
the parents agree to it --- it doesn't 'just sort of happen'

What pictures? It was a tough article, but I didn't see any pictures
nor full names....
what gives?



I don't watch much TV news and yet I have seen twice while channel
surfing during commercials --

That's because the operation is in progess. I hope it's successful, what a
cute little girl!

(H Schinske) wrote in message ...
wrote:

I have been horrified that this is all over the news -- exactly like a
freak show

what can parents be thinking of to expose their child to this --

How is it any different than any other operation to separate conjoined twins?
Those are *always* news.


This world has never seen a live 2 headed baby before. This is a
first.

How did it happen? If I were the mother, I'd be fighting irrational
feelings of guilt: did I drink too much alcohol before pregnancy or
otherwise abuse my body?

(Hillary Israeli) wrote in message ...
In ,
St. Matthew wrote:

*What if the same thing happened to you? If it were me, God forbid,
*there'd be no cameras in the nursery, that's for sure. It's not a
*freak show.

I'm sure I'd
still take pictures of my child, though!!

Sure. And keep them PRIVATE. She may want to see them when she grows up.

"toypup" wrote in message news:EGRUb.240818$na.397528@attbi_s04...

In ,
St. Matthew wrote:

*What if the same thing happened to you?

I don't know what I'd really do in her parents' shoes. I do know I didn't
immediately feel a bond with DS when he was born. I hear that's normal. If
my child had two heads, it might freak me out too much and take me much
longer to develop a bond. The second head moving its mouth while I was
nursing would really bother me.


I'd be flooded with empathy for the little one. I'd also even have
feelings for the partially developed head because there is some brain
activity detected there. It is a form of life, too, after all.

How did it happen? If I were the mother, I'd be fighting irrational
feelings of guilt: did I drink too much alcohol before pregnancy or
otherwise abuse my body?

Huh? Those things don't cause conjoined twins, and this is simply an extreme
case.

--Helen

(St. Matthew) wrote in
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(H Schinske) wrote in message
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wrote:

I have been horrified that this is all over the news -- exactly like
a freak show

what can parents be thinking of to expose their child to this --

How is it any different than any other operation to separate
conjoined twins? Those are *always* news.


This world has never seen a live 2 headed baby before. This is a
first.

How did it happen? If I were the mother, I'd be fighting irrational
feelings of guilt: did I drink too much alcohol before pregnancy or
otherwise abuse my body?

If I were the mother I would be looking for representation to find out
if there is some pollutant in the environment that caused my baby to
have such a dramatic birth defect.

In article ,
(St. Matthew) wrote:

(H Schinske) wrote in message
...
wrote:

I have been horrified that this is all over the news -- exactly like a
freak show

what can parents be thinking of to expose their child to this --

How is it any different than any other operation to separate conjoined
twins?
Those are *always* news.


This world has never seen a live 2 headed baby before. This is a
first.

How did it happen? If I were the mother, I'd be fighting irrational
feelings of guilt: did I drink too much alcohol before pregnancy or
otherwise abuse my body?

Then someone would need to provide some serious counseling.

No one knows what causes identical twins; they only know that when the
split occurs late, it can be incomplete, resulting in cojoined twins.
If one of the co-joined twins fails to develop normally, you have what
you have he a baby whose development would normally have failed and
caused a spontaneous abortion, but, because the fetus was attached to a
normally developing baby, did not. There is absolutely NO evidence that
the mother's behavior, or nutruition, or anything else has anything to
do with it: it just seems to be "one of those things".

No one did anything "wrong".

I am fascinated by the issues of identical twins (even though mine are
fraternal -- and they DO know what makes THAT happen!), and that
includes the subcategory of cojoined twins (and the even rarer
subcategory illuminated here. I'm sorry this is getting so much
sensational exposure, but find myself very much interested in how they
are connected, and what sorts of challenges the surgery faces, and all
that kind of stuff.

Personally, I don't find the pictures or the medical information being
given any more inappropriate than any other coverage given unusual
congenital problems, and how they are corrected.

meh
--
Children won't care how much you know until they know how much you care