Good Luck Lil Milagros

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Doctors Begin to Separate 'Mermaid' Baby's Legs
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By Jude Webber

LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - Doctors have successfully taken the first step toward separating the fused legs of Milagros Cerron, a 9-month-old Peruvian baby dubbed the "Little Mermaid" because of her rare birth defect, her parents said on Wednesday.

Everything went well, but it's a tough time. Her mother is crying, we're crying," her father Ricardo Cerron, 24, told Reuters after Tuesday's operation to begin correcting the condition, which is nearly always fatal.

Milagros -- whose name means "miracles" in Spanish -- was born with "mermaid syndrome," or sirenomelia, a condition affecting 1-in-60,000 to 1-in-100,000 people. Only a handful of patients have survived more than a few hours and there are few precedents for the risky separation surgery.

Milagros, who weighs 17 lbs and is 24 inches long, has a healthy heart and one good kidney but the other is tiny, said Luis Rubio, the doctor leading the team which plans to cut her legs apart next month.

Story here Hope that it works out for her, that she'll be able to play like other kids and maybe get into Martial Arts??? .

 

[Gin-Gin]

Hope that it works out for her, that she'll be able to play like other kids and maybe get into Martial Arts???

Poor thing! I hope so too, Ralph. There's a Kenpo school in Chile, perhaps there's one in Peru also.... :ultracool

 

[Kempogeek]

She's a cutie! Keeping fingers crossed and hoping for a positive outcome with the operation! All the best to you little one and your family. Steve