Sirenomelia

April 27, 2004 in Peru, was born a girl named Milagros Tserron. This girl is present inherent genetic abnormality that led to the fact that both her legs fused together from the heels to the waist, making Milagros like a mermaid. In addition, it has deformed kidney, and digestive, urethral and genital organs are developed with significant deviations from the norm. Typically, children with severe disease die on the second day after birth, but Milagros was the third in the world of a child who was still alive, despite the risk of disease.

In 2005-2006, a group of Peruvian surgeons led by Dr. Luis Rubio made the impossible, dividing her limbs fused so that in the end the girl was able to walk as her peers. To do this, first it had to be implanted between limbs silicone earbuds for stretching the leg skin and then cut them to share vessels and then sew to receive skin grafts legs girls. The operation was successful, and after a few weeks of Milagros was able to take the first steps. Of course, this is only the beginning, as it has yet to operations on internal organs and a long, possibly many years, rehabilitation before its status can be considered stable.

Additional information: the second man (of living) with a diagnosis of sirenomelia (so-called Mermaid syndrome) is Tiffany Yorks, who is now 22 years old. She suffered all those operations that its Peruvian "friend in misfortune," just ahead. She holds the record for longevity among former "mermaids".

Cesarean section - with their own hands

Ines Ramirez Perez, a resident of rural Mexico - the only woman in the world to independently made a cesarean section and survived. In March 2000, the eighth child of a pregnant Ines was in his cabin when suddenly went into labor. After 12 hours of torture the child never born, the midwife and the nearest is 80 kilometers from the mothers. Ines decided to make a Caesarean section, despite the lack of experience and medical education. After drinking a bottle of rubbing alcohol for pain relief, the woman made an incision in the abdomen with a kitchen knife semnadtsatisantimetrovy hand and pushed the baby out of the uterus, cutting the umbilical cord with scissors household.

This horrible operation took an hour and then lost consciousness Ines surge. After a while she came to his senses, closed her bleeding cut in the belly clothes and called her six year old son for help. After 16 hours, she was in the hospital where underwent several operations to correct the effects of its independence. Surprisingly, ten days later, she was discharged from the hospital with their newborn son, Orlando Ruiz Ramirez. The boy was perfectly healthy.

Additional information: in an interview with Ines commented on his act: "I could no longer stand the pain. I decided that if my child dies, and I have nothing to live. But if he was to survive, I was ready to do anything to see how it grows. I had no other choice. I trusted in God and hoped that he would save us both. "

Men's pregnancy

Thomas Beatie, a married transsexual Transsexuals - who they are   Oregon, USA, drew the attention of the world media, stating that he decided to make his second child in his own still-functioning uterus. His wife, Nancy could not have children because of the undergoing hysterectomy Hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) - a terrible need   (removal of the uterus), so Thomas (who used to be a woman) had to recall all the delights of motherhood. Previously, Thomas was named Tracy Lagondino and he was a woman. Realizing himself a man, Tracy took a special course of hormone therapy and underwent a sex change operation, and its sexual organs were in place in case Tracy (turned into Thomas) wants to have a baby.

In an article published in the edition of The Advocate article Beatie wrote: "Sterilization is not a requirement for sex reassignment, so I decided to take a course of hormone therapy and do reconstructive breast augmentation surgery, but the reproductive organs remain unchanged. The desire to have a child - it is the desire of any person, regardless of gender. " Pregnancy is successful, and June 29, 2008 was born a girl, and after a while everything again, and Thomas / Tracy gave birth to two boys.

Additional information: I must say that the sex-change operation in the US necessarily sterilization Sterilization - may be temporarily   or remove reproductive organs, so women who have had this procedure may become pregnant. For this to her for a few months (in the case of Biti - four months) before the alleged conception canceled testosterone injections, after which the female hormones Female hormones: because you - a woman!   take their, and the man again becomes a woman.

Allergy to the baby

Joanne Mackie, twenty-eight young mother from Erdington, after the birth of her first child discovered that suffers from a rare skin disease known as "pemphigoid pregnant." It is an allergy, and allergies is on your child! A strange rash on the body of Joan appeared soon after the birth of his son James, and caused so much pain that she could not even take the hands of their own child and had to wear a jacket with long sleeves to feed the baby, or her skin turned into a continuous wound ... This is a rare phenomenon occurs in one of 50,000 mothers and due to the malfunction of the immune system to protect the mother and child, but there is faltering and accepts the child as a foreign object.

"In the beginning, when I was told that it was allergic to my own child, I thought it was a joke - says Mackey. - But eventually I realized that it was true, and I felt completely crushed. It felt like myrrh collapsed. It was the worst period of my life. I had to watch from the side as the husband himself first bathing our son. And in the first weeks after birth he had to rock the night James and I just heart was breaking. " Fortunately, the situation has improved slightly thanks to strong steroid, which took Joan, but doctors warned her that if women decide to give birth to another child, it is likely to be repeated all over again.

"I'm not sure I can still relive the horror, - says Joan. - But I realized that the ability to keep your child in the arms - the most valuable thing in the world. Now I can finally pressed against the chest of my baby, and happy. I do not want to let him go for a minute! ".

Additional Information: pemphigoid pregnant women often occurs in the second and third trimester of pregnancy or immediately after delivery. It helps relieve the symptoms of allergies course of corticosteroids, such as prednisone.

Creativity as a disease

When Sandy Allen was diagnosed - a malignant tumor Malignant tumor: cells are mad   brain with immediate surgery, she was horrified. Fortunately, surgeons have done their work quality and saved the lives of women, removing the tumor and part of the left hemisphere. During the rehabilitation period, Sandy discovered his awakened passion for art and various artistic activities. Sandy enrolled in art courses and turned his home into an art studio, collages decorated the walls of their own manufacture. This occurred, according to experts, because of the damage to the left hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for the analytical and logical thinking. As a result, a major role was playing the right hemisphere, which controls emotions Emotions and culture: how to decipher the emotional code   and creativity. As she says Sandy will remove constraints of its work factors.

Additional Information: This is not the only known case of such a change in human psychology as a result of damage to areas of the brain. For example, a well-known artist Salva Alison found a significant improvement in their creative abilities after she appeared in the brain benign tumor A benign tumor - is not always safe . Oddly, despite the recommendation of doctors, she refused hospitalization and surgery, and continues to work, despite the migraine I have a migraine. What to do? , Insomnia and frequent hallucinations.