Woman told she was having twins delivers baby with two heads, three arms and two hearts

Mum Shaheen Khan and husband Sohail had been anticipating twins for his or her first youngsters (Image: SWNS)

A pair of conjoined infants that appear like one child with two heads shocked docs after the dad and mom have been instructed to count on regular twins.

The infants, born on March 28 in Ratlam within the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, has three palms and two hearts.

Shaheen Khan and husband Sohail have been anticipating twins for his or her first child however have been shocked when she gave delivery to what they thought was a child with two heads.

The situation is called dicephalic parapagus — the place two infants are joined by one torso — and infrequently leads to a stillbirth.

However the miracle infants have been admitted to a hospital within the close by metropolis of Indore to be monitored by docs.

Shaheen stays within the district hospital in Ratlam.

If two hearts are full, the twins have higher probabilities of survival (Image: Rareshot Information/SWNS)

One of many medics, Dr Lahoti, mentioned: ‘These sorts of circumstances are uncommon and the situation of infants stays unsure, particularly within the preliminary days.

‘Because of this, we've stored them beneath remark. Now we have not deliberate for any surgical procedure on the affected person.’

In circumstances of dicephalic parapagus the infants’ prospects are finest if no try is made to separate them, besides in circumstances through which one twin is clearly dying.

If two full hearts are current, this improves their probabilities of survival.

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