Woman Gives Birth to Baby with 4 Legs, 2 Genitals

Posted on: Sat 17-03-2018

After the recent delivery of a baby with three legs in Kaduna, the residence of Malam Hassan Ibrahim at Sabon Garin Makiyawa in Magama Jibia, Katsina State is attracting much curiosity as people continue to move in to catch a glimpse of the abnormal birth of his second child from his second wife, Zainab

The baby was delivered with four legs, male and female genitals by Hassan’s 20-year-old wife on March 9, 2018.

Hassan and Zainab have been married for four years and are already blessed with a three year old son, Fahad.

Since news of the birth broke out, many have been trooping in from far and near to confirm what they heard.

Zainab was accompanied by Hassan’s other wife, Amina, to the nearby Shema Primary Health Center when she started labour around 10pm but they were told to return home by the nurses who said it was false labour.

After getting home, later that night, labour pains again set in, necessitating a call to the neighbourhood traditional birth attendant, Malama Maimuna, who promptly came to help with the delivery around 1am.

It was when the baby was being cleaned up that the abnormalities were discovered. It was a mix of joy and confusion. Later that night, the father was called to notify him of the development.

“I was a bit shocked and confused but I realised it was a gift from Allah, the knower of all things, and I cuddled my baby and prayed,” Hassan said.

“In the morning, the news began to spread like wild fire and people began to troop into my house. The following day, I took her to the hospital and the doctors have now referred us to the Turai Yar’adua Children’s Hospital for medical attention,” he said.

Describing the baby, Hassan said, “The child has both sexes and four legs, the two abnormal legs and a penis are on the left side of the ribs, only one of the two additional legs is moving, the second doesn’t.

“I can say it’s a girl because the longer and normal legs have a female genital at their proper place.”

When asked if his wife attended ante-natal clinic during pregnancy, Hassan said she did and tried to look for her ante-natal card but couldn’t find it as he said the card was deposited at the local government secretariat when he was invited for documentation by the officials.

Polymelia (from Greek πολυ- = "many" plus μÎλος (plural μÎλεα) = "limb") also known as hydra syndrome is a birth defect involving limbs (a type of dysmelia), in which the affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs. In humans and most land-dwelling animals, this means having five or more limbs. The extra limb is most commonly shrunken and/or deformed.

Sometimes an embryo started as conjoined twins, but one twin degenerated completely except for one or more limbs, which end up attached to the other twin.

Sometimes small extra legs between the normal legs are caused by the body axis forking in the dipygus condition.

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