Baby Born With Two Heads Named ‘Emanoel’ and ‘Jesus’
- Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:11pm by
Liz Klimas
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Maria de Nazare, a 25-year-old Brazilian woman, believed when she was going into labor that she would be welcoming two babies into the world.
Instead, the Daily Mail reports, just minutes before giving birth, tests revealed that the twins would share the same heart, lungs, liver and pelvis. The babies have two brains and separate spines.
(Image via Daily Mail)
The Daily Mail has more:
The 25-year-old mother, who lives in a rural area of the state, had no ultra-sound scans during her pregnancy and only found out about the abnormality minutes before the baby was born at 1 a.m. on Monday morning.
[Claudionor Assis de Vasconcelos, director of the hospital where the baby was born] said: “When doctors scanned her they realised that the baby had two heads and that a normal birth would be a great risk both for mother and baby. The caesarean took an hour because the baby was sitting down.
“Despite all the problems we have as a small interior hospital we managed to save both mother and baby, which was our aim. And for us it was a great surprise to find out that the child was in really good health.”
The Daily Mail reports Neila Dahas, director of the Santa Casa hospital, as saying that removing one of the heads was not even an option as both of the brains were functioning. Separation of the babies is impossible.
The Daily Mail goes on to report that de Nazare named the babies Emanoel and Jesus due to their Christmastime birthday. It should also be noted that the mother did not appear to doctors at any point to be distraught over her babies’ malformation.
Although dicephalic parapagu is an extremely rare condition, the Daily Mail states that this is the second baby born in Brazil with two heads this year. This child only lived a few hours due to a lack of oxygen to one of the heads.
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Comments (161)
FoxholeAtheist
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:22pmPraise the lord! Hallelujah! Truly a miracle child! Jesus really loves the little babies.
countrysideflair
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:52pmI hope you are so right in your thinking FoxholeAtheist… otherwise you may find spirit prison a bit sucky.
Report Post »America,loveitorleaveit
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 6:02pmwhy don’t you just go crawl back into your hole and stay there
Report Post »Discord
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:54pmlol spirit prison
Report Post »TheLeftMadeMeRight
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 6:29pmYou know when I first read one of your posts I thought what a jerk. After reading more of them I can’t help but wonder what has filled you with such anger and hatred? You don’t act like “an atheist”, as in a person who doesn’t believe in a higher power, but more of a person looking for an answer or validation of some kind. If you don’t believe in God then why bother posting about Him? You won’t get a rise out of a Christian because faith trumps hate and anger. Please tell us why it is important to you to post on a website where you must know you appear to be a jerk? Either way the Christians on here will pray for you.
To answer your question God did not make the world or everything in it perfect. We are all faced with challenges in our lives that are to be overcome. It’s not easy to keep the faith when you are faced with bad things. That is the whole idea. I sincerely hope you can find your peace, somewhere. Until then, lighten up. And if you never find yours, you can always try ours; you just have to ask Him to show it to you. Merry Christmas.
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:10pmMore to love i guess.
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:29pmActually, less to love, since they share much of their body.
Unless you mean, more work to love/support/medical bills/etc….
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 12:56amNo ithink i meant more to love, yup that it.
Report Post »WatchingThePuppetShow
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:08pmVery tough life ahead indeed. Well, at least they are both looking forward. I’ve seen this issue when one head is turned drastically in a bad direction.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:08pmThe more I look at this picture, the more it looks like one baby placed cleverly on top of another.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 6:51pmThats what I like, a positive attitude.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:07pmI dont even wanna think about one being conservative and the other being liberal
Report Post »by faith
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:06pmKid already has more brains than congress
Report Post »countrysideflair
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:49pmSo true…
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:04pmUn-called for jack-arse
Report Post »Joshua7
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:04pmGod works in mysterious ways, to say the least. It’s amazing and I wish all three of them well.
Report Post »Chappy123
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:03pmGod Bless them.
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:02pmIt would suck if one was a republican and the other a democrat.
Report Post »dealer@678
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 6:28pmYep, It’s gonna be hell for the liberal to be sporting a black eye his whole life
Report Post »timdaniels
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 2:08amIt’ll be worse for the conservative who has to listen to the whining and ad hominem all day while he works to support both himself and the liberal
Report Post »Old Truckers
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:01pmTry to imagine going through your life sharing a body with someone else. A body not fully your own.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:19pmI could only think of it for a minute before went screaming out of the room. But I’m back now.
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:00pmloser
Report Post »obviously it’s your freakin brain that is disabled
ROMANS 10-9
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:58pmGod Bless them!
I hope they’re both Christian Conservatives one day!
Report Post »This_Individual
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:23pmMilitant socialists, you say?
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 6:25pmIt’s really not likely that they’ll live long enough to know what that means. Nobody with two complete heads and functioning brains but only one of everything else has ever survived to adulthood.
Report Post »edie1945
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:55pmMay God bless and keep them close forever.
Report Post »Drakkhanlord
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:46pmMindBlowing…HolySheet…
Report Post »piper60
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:43pmAt the end of the article, it wasn’t clear if this baby lived, or the other baby born in Brazil.
Report Post »JBaer
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:57pmPiper60, My thought exactly. Which baby didn’t live? This one or the other baby mentioned?
Report Post »FreedomPurveyor
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:02pmEarlier in the article a quote says “we managed to save both mother and baby.” The last sentence is confusing, but it appears the first child(ren) died, not this one.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:03pmIt was the other baby. This one (so far) is doing OK.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:41pmThere was a program on discovery channel a number of years back of a girl being born like this, two heads and one body. At the time of the show they were school age and amazing to watch and listen to – each as articulate and distinct as if they were siamese twins.
Report Post »mils
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:02pmwe watched this program..amazing. strong family bonds also helped them cope. they are amazing young women
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:28pmWow. Just…. wow…..
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 11:03pmDon’t worry. Your baby will just be fine. Pray for these poor babies and move on.
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 11:12pmDon’t let this worry you. Your baby will be fine. Please don’t worry.don’t know why but God put this on my heart to tell you.
Report Post »Bonnieblue2A
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:27pmTwo heads are better than one?
Report Post »Mimi24
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 11:24pmBeneath you to say that.
Report Post »Phyliss
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:26pm2 heads are better than one.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:25pmZaphod Beeblebrox?
Report Post »J.st.n
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:49pmI seem to recall a third arm being involved as well…
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 8:22pmNo no…. Second head flips back under the first…. unlike this little dude(s) who are side by side….. I keep the 3rd arm tied down, in my pants…..LOL
Report Post »V-MAN MACE
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:24pmUm…
Report Post »ProgressiveDeist267
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:23pmWhy would someone name their baby after Jesus? I never met someone name Jesus so it sounds different to me.
Report Post »Exile
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:30pmIt’s a very common name in Latin American countries.
Report Post »Islamislame
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:31pmDid you grow up in a box? What a silly question.
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:36pmJust look at the roster of a MLB team.
Report Post »Yeah_Buddy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:43pmYeah but I think they pronounce it ‘hey-zuess’.
Report Post »rose-ellen
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 6:13pmJoshua means.Jesus.Or vice virse.I would be a liar if I didn‘t admit that this story and the picture doesn’t challenge my faiith in God.Once again the flesh challenges the spirit. Pray for me.[and of course these precious innocent ones and her mom].They have a lot of nerve refering to these people as one person though.
Report Post »timdaniels
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 2:16amWait, did you not notice this guy is a progressive? Where he comes from NO ONE DID have that name.
Report Post »HenryCameron
Posted on December 22, 2011 at 2:57pmPerhaps you‘ve heard it and just haven’t known? They pronounce “Jesus” as “hey soos”.
Report Post »CulpepperJosh1638
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:19pmthank you crazy nature!
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 4:17pmMy God….they have a hard life ahead. A two headed person is not common to say the least.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:08pmNo, no they don’t–because they’re dead.
Report Post »“This child only lived a few hours due to a lack of oxygen to one of the heads.”
thegreatcarnac
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 5:38pmNo…I think that statement was speaking of another child born in Brazil this year before this one (two) with 2 heads…it died…but this one lived.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 6:44pmMaybe but I don‘t think that’s what the sentence meant, and I imagine ALL humans born with two heads die pretty quickly because of oxygen deprivation–the human body is built to work a certain way. Stray too far from those parameters and the organism doesn’t function; there‘s a REASON why there aren’t a bunch of two-headed humans running around, even though two-headed humans would probably be evolutionary superior to humans if they were essentially two humans sharing a body–the brain requires an inordinate amount of energy to function, and is the largest consumer of the energy we use, after body heat. In addition to energy, it has other very specific requirements, like, for example, a certain amount of oxygen. The human heart, lungs, and circulatory system, all evolved to support ONE brain, not TWO. I imagine something that big a change would require rebuilding the organism from the ground up to be functional–it would need multiple hearts and lungs, or ones more effective than ours, and would consume vastly more energy.
Report Post »macpappy
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 6:57pmdid a little more research.
The infant shares one heart and one set of vital organs, but both heads have started nursing normally, doctors told the media.
Joseph Brazil, the obstetrician responsible for the delivery, said the child has “an amazing appetite.”
“Despite all the problems we have as a small interior hospital we managed to save both mother and baby, which was our aim,” the hospital’s director, Claudionor Assis de Vasconcelos, told reporters.
“And for us it was a great surprise to find out that the child was in really good health,” she added.
The baby’s mother, who has other children, has bonded well with her newborn and wanted to take the child home straightaway, she added.
However, the mother and baby were taken Wednesday by air ambulance to the city of Belem so doctors could carry out further tests.
Neila Dahas, obstetrician and gynecologist at the Santa Casa de Misericordia Hospital, said the baby was born with two heads as a result of “a delay in the division of the egg.”
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 7:13pmYou may be right, although I’m shocked one set of, ostensibly normal, vital organs can support two brains–I’m worried that they might not be capable of doing so as the babies grow.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on December 21, 2011 at 10:20pmNo THIRD it was the other child which was born with two heads. This baby is in good health. The last sentence could have been worded better.
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