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A baby in India was born with two faces — two sets of eyes, two noses, two lips — and she's breathing and eating normally, her parents say. She's living in a mud-and-brick house in Noida, about 50 kilometres northeast of New Delhi, the daughter of a young factory worker and his wife, who say they're not seeking further medical help because a doctor said everything was working normally for their infant when she was born.
According to her father: "She's fed through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. We use whichever mouth is free to feed her."
The birth has attracted attention in this religious Hindu-majority country, with some declaring the baby a deity. Reuters reports:
Doctors said it was an extremely rare case, with the girl having two skulls joined together, and separating them was out of the question.
"Since the heads are fused, separating them is not possible," Dr. D.K Gupta, a pediatrician at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, told the Hindustan Times newspaper.
But doctors said the girl should be examined thoroughly to study the possibility of complications.
The case comes just months after Indian doctors performed a rare marathon surgery to remove the extra limbs of a girl born with four arms and legs. Lakshmi Tatma started taking her first steps with the help of a baby walker.
