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2-headed girl's ma hails miracle

By MAKI BECKER

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

The mother of an Egyptian baby girl born with a second head thanked God, Egypt's president and the doctors who successfully operated on her daughter yesterday for giving the infant a chance to have a normal life.

"Thank you," Naglaa Maged said softly as she cradled her daughter in a blue blanket in an appearance on ABC's "Oprah" show. "Thank you, doctors."

Maged had no idea that her baby had such a rare condition when she went to the hospital in March 2004 to give birth to twins. Her first baby, Noora, was perfectly healthy, but doctors struggled to deliver the second child and had to perform an emergency Caesarean section.

To everyone's surprise, the baby had a second head and their brains were conjoined.

The attached head - referred to in the medical community as a parasitic head - had no torso but appeared to be alive. Its eyes blinked and it could suckle a pacifier.

"First at the delivery, she didn't know she had this kind of condition," Maged's interpreter said. "After five days of the delivery, she knew about it. The doctors wouldn't tell her because they were afraid of her condition."

Doctors puzzled over what to do with the parasitic head.

The second head "didn't have a heart to survive on," said Dr. Abla El Alfi, who would later lead the team that performed the separation surgery.

"She had the brain, she can blink her eyes, she can suck, she can move the lips, so she is a human being. She had her dignity," Dr. Mohamed Lottfy, the team neurosurgeon, said of the second head.

When Manar was 10 months old, doctors saw that the second head was sapping the life out of Manar and that it needed to be removed. They consulted religious authorities about the ethics of removing the head and all agreed it was the only way for Manar to live.

Months earlier, doctors had tried to save a Dominican baby girl with a parasitic head, but she did not survive the surgery.

"It was very risky surgery," Alfi said.

A team of 14 doctors worked for seven hours to separate the head from Manar's. Manar miraculously survived.

The head was buried. Shortly before the ceremony, the family named her Islaam.

Yesterday, Maged said she hoped her daughter, whose head is still lumpy from the radical, lifesaving surgery, will someday become a doctor herself.

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2-headed girl's ma hails miracle

By MAKI BECKER

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

The mother of an Egyptian baby girl born with a second head thanked God, Egypt's president and the doctors who successfully operated on her daughter yesterday for giving the infant a chance to have a normal life.

"Thank you," Naglaa Maged said softly as she cradled her daughter in a blue blanket in an appearance on ABC's "Oprah" show. "Thank you, doctors."

Maged had no idea that her baby had such a rare condition when she went to the hospital in March 2004 to give birth to twins. Her first baby, Noora, was perfectly healthy, but doctors struggled to deliver the second child and had to perform an emergency Caesarean section.

To everyone's surprise, the baby had a second head and their brains were conjoined.

The attached head - referred to in the medical community as a parasitic head - had no torso but appeared to be alive. Its eyes blinked and it could suckle a pacifier.

"First at the delivery, she didn't know she had this kind of condition," Maged's interpreter said. "After five days of the delivery, she knew about it. The doctors wouldn't tell her because they were afraid of her condition."

Doctors puzzled over what to do with the parasitic head.

The second head "didn't have a heart to survive on," said Dr. Abla El Alfi, who would later lead the team that performed the separation surgery.

"She had the brain, she can blink her eyes, she can suck, she can move the lips, so she is a human being. She had her dignity," Dr. Mohamed Lottfy, the team neurosurgeon, said of the second head.

When Manar was 10 months old, doctors saw that the second head was sapping the life out of Manar and that it needed to be removed. They consulted religious authorities about the ethics of removing the head and all agreed it was the only way for Manar to live.

Months earlier, doctors had tried to save a Dominican baby girl with a parasitic head, but she did not survive the surgery.

"It was very risky surgery," Alfi said.

A team of 14 doctors worked for seven hours to separate the head from Manar's. Manar miraculously survived.

The head was buried. Shortly before the ceremony, the family named her Islaam.

Yesterday, Maged said she hoped her daughter, whose head is still lumpy from the radical, lifesaving surgery, will someday become a doctor herself.

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don't sell yourself short tx. you're just having a weak moment. we all expect to see a line like " 2 heads are better than one theory is overrated" from you in the very near future

Tx is just upset that somebody beat him to the punch.

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don't sell yourself short tx. you're just having a weak moment. we all expect to see a line like " 2 heads are better than one theory is overrated" from you in the very near future

Tx is just upset that somebody beat him to the punch.

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...That was so insensitive dude....I love a good joke and my sense of humor is dark but that wasn't funny.

I've got to admit, i f@ckin' chuckled at that, but then again i have already secured my all access pass to hell. A two-headed chick would make for a crazy blow-bang porn, of course you would have to wait for her to turn 18 i guess.

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I've got to admit, i f@ckin' chuckled at that, but then again i have already secured my all access pass to hell. A two-headed chick would make for a crazy blow-bang porn, of course you would have to wait for her to turn 18 i guess.

...granted, the word "head".. :mrgreen: will always generate a chuckle..but in this situation I can't laugh at that comment. [-X
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