Monster Baby
SEVEN-month-old pre-mature baby was born freak -- having the unusual look similar to an alien to poor parents of Barangay Tumaga, this city, Tuesday night.
The baby, who died after about an hour when delivered at the Zamboanga City Medical Center (ZCMC) by her 24-year-old mother, Evelyn Ataca, through Caesarean procedure, possessed an extra pair of legs, two nostrils, two mouths, two buttocks, one of its two eyes centered at the forehead, but with only one heart, one head and one chest.
"Of course, abnormal and pre-mature, the baby survived only for an hour. We could not really explain," admitted Dr. Gay Gonzales, OB-Gynecology Department head, of the ZCMC, when interviewed Wednesday night by a dxMR Radyo ng Bayan announcer.
Although, the mother's attending physician confirmed the baby's gender to be female, her tiny form also had two sex organs.
"There were two sex organs, because apparently they were supposed to be twins, but were joined in the waist," Gonzales described the supposed conjoined babies.
Relatives said Evelyn looked normal during her conceiving period, as she never craved for any urge for a particular delicacy that could have affected her baby.
When she underwent an ultra-sound after she complained of stomach pain, she was advised to see a doctor last February 7. It was then she discovered that she was carrying a twin, Gonzales said.
According to Gonzales, at 5:00 p.m., last February 22, her bag of water ruptured, she was admitted at the hospital and was made to undergo a Caesarean procedure because of premature delivery.
"So, when the baby was delivered that was the presentation. She was abnormal," Gonzales narrated.
Gonzales said had the mother undergone the normal four-time pre-natal check-up procedure, the weird delivery could have been avoided.
She advised prospective mothers to strictly comply with the required pre-natal check-ups, "as early as their miss-period" to avoid any possible abnormalities "during the crucial period of organ development."
The young mother, according to Gonzales, had admitted that her family had a history of twinning.
'"What puzzled us is that despite her denial of any possible attempt to abort the baby by taking drugs as they wanted the baby, the baby came out abnormal. This is the first time ever to happen in the hospital. This case is reportable, and we'll investigate this by asking more details from the mother as to her history," Gonzales said.
The baby would have been her mother's first-born child. But the obstetrics head assured the young mother has nothing to worry for her next child delivery, as her bitter past will not affect her condition.
Other local medical experts, when reached for comment, considered the rare birth as the first of its kind recorded in their books, perhaps, the first ever even known in this modern world.
City Mayor Celso Lobregat, who visited the mother at the hospital, promised to shoulder all medication expenses incurred by the family for the mother's fast recovery. The unnamed child was buried Wednesday.
Concerned authorities recommended the medical profession to conduct further study on the child case for its official findings as to what really caused her abnormalities
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