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Family Forum / Pregnancy / Pregnancy / January 2006any ideas? iraq siamese twins
just been listening to BBC radio 4 there was a report about siamese twins born in iraq 2 days ago and said they were boy and girl, thinking this was rather odd, I went into the bbc website, but cannot find any reference to the story, so I googled it, still nothing, it's not April 1st, so what on earth is going on! Anne I haven't heard anything about it. I did a Google search on "Siamese twins Iraq" and "conjoined twins Iraq" and didn't find anything recent from any sources. Maybe you misheard, or maybe it was a "late breaking" story that they broadcast and then realized it was wrong, so pulled it. Who knows.  SignatureJamie Earth Angels: Taylor Marlys, 1/3/03 -- Who's got the Christmas spirit, singing all day long, "You put one foot in front of the other, and soon you'll be walking out the doooo-oooo-ooor! Addison Grace, 9/30/04 -- My Little Ham, who smiles so big her eyes disappear and she says, "Cheese" on command. Although it sounds more like "eeeeeesssshhh"! Check out the family! -- www.MyFamily.com, User ID: Clarkguest1, Password: Guest Become a member for free - go to Add Member to set up your own User ID and Password > just been listening to BBC radio 4 > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Anne >I haven't heard anything about it. I did a Google search on "Siamese twins >Iraq" and "conjoined twins Iraq" and didn't find anything recent from any >sources. > > Maybe you misheard, or maybe it was a "late breaking" story that they > broadcast and then realized it was wrong, so pulled it. Who knows. definitely didn't mishear, wasn't really listening at first, but at the headline I stopped what I was doing, they had a reporter in the hospital in Baghdad, interviews with the parents and later in the report they repeated "boy and girl". They are joined above the hip, sharing 3 kidneys and ones legs are not fully formed. It was right at the end of the show, 17.50 (i.e. less than half an hour ago) I think I will go and find it on "listen again" Anne http://www.moroccotimes.com/news/article.asp?id=11910 Is it this? This seems to be the most recently born conjoined twins, but I can't tell the gender from the names, "Hafsa" and "Ilham". They were born 50 days ago in Morroco, but will be separated in Saudi Arabia. Okay, checking another article, it appears that they are both girls. http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=75696&d=3&m=1&y=2006 I'm guessing this isn't it. Now you've me curious. Please provide the link once you find it, okay? SignatureJamie Earth Angels: Taylor Marlys, 1/3/03 -- Who's got the Christmas spirit, singing all day long, "You put one foot in front of the other, and soon you'll be walking out the doooo-oooo-ooor! Addison Grace, 9/30/04 -- My Little Ham, who smiles so big her eyes disappear and she says, "Cheese" on command. Although it sounds more like "eeeeeesssshhh"! Check out the family! -- www.MyFamily.com, User ID: Clarkguest1, Password: Guest Become a member for free - go to Add Member to set up your own User ID and Password > >I haven't heard anything about it. I did a Google search on "Siamese > >twins Iraq" and "conjoined twins Iraq" and didn't find anything recent [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Anne > I'm guessing this isn't it. Now you've me curious. Please provide the > link > once you find it, okay? you can listen to the story on the website, the "listen to the latest program" should take you today (Friday), it was almost 54 minutes into the program http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/pm/ I've emailed the program to see what they can say! Anne finally "In Baghdad, the parents of a boy and girl born joined together at the hip have issued an appeal for help. The twins need to be separated, but there are no facilities for the operation in Iraq. Jonny Dymond reports from Baghdad. " from the BBC website, it's a video feed Anne Very bizarre. I thought that usually, only same sex children would be conjoined as it was a single egg that split, although not very well. But, I also think I remember hearing that sometimes non-identical twins can be conjoined as well, as they sort of fuse together during the early development, and it can affect the development as well, which it clearly did in the case of these boy/girl twins in Iraq. Hopefully they will be able to be brought to America, or somewhere else, where they can have access to better medical care and be separated. SignatureJamie Earth Angels: Taylor Marlys, 1/3/03 -- Who's got the Christmas spirit, singing all day long, "You put one foot in front of the other, and soon you'll be walking out the doooo-oooo-ooor! Addison Grace, 9/30/04 -- My Little Ham, who smiles so big her eyes disappear and she says, "Cheese" on command. Although it sounds more like "eeeeeesssshhh"! Check out the family! -- www.MyFamily.com, User ID: Clarkguest1, Password: Guest Become a member for free - go to Add Member to set up your own User ID and Password > finally > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Anne "Jamie Clark" <jamielee6@comcast.net> wrote in message > Very bizarre. I thought that usually, only same sex children would be > conjoined as it was a single egg that split, although not very well. But, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > able to be brought to America, or somewhere else, where they can have > access to better medical care and be separated. yeah, that's what I thought too, however apparently there are some genetic malformations that can cause monozygotic twins (i.e. from the same egg and sperm, usually called identical), to actually be different sexes and not actually identical, I suppose if that can happen then it can happen and them to be conjoined! My other thought was some sort of deformity that makes them think one is a boy (or the other way round), when in fact they are both of the same sex, but I guess that will be cleared up as news comes out. Anne > finally > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > from the BBC website, it's a video feed That is very bizarre, I've never heard of opposite sex cojoined twins. Must be very rare. The Hospital for Sick Children here in Toronto recently separated a set of cojoined twins from Zimbabwe. It happened that a Canadian doctor was doing a stint in a hospital there when it was discovered (very late in the pregnancy) that the boys were joined at the torso. I think they shared a liver. Anyway she delivered them via c-section and then spear-headed a campaign to raise the funds from a variety of sources and the doctors here donated their time to separate the twins when they were nearly a year old. They also had quite severe cleft lips and palates that were repaired. It was a very long process, apparently now they are nearly 2 and doing well although somewhat malnourished and underweight but of course everyone wonders what will happen to these boys as they grow up in their very poor rural village. Elle |
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