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Girl Born With 8 Limbs Gets to Go Home

Posted Dec 15, 07 3:35 PM CST in Arts & Living,  World 

(Newser) – The 2-year-old girl whose extra limbs were removed in a marathon surgery left a Bangalore hospital today for home. Doctors say Lakshmi Tata, born with four arms and four legs from a conjoined twin, will recover, but they cautioned she will need more surgery, BBC reports. "Lakshmi is normal, eating well and in good spirits," said one surgeon.

Conjoined twins are rare, accounting for just one in every 200,000 births, and few survive. Lakshmi’s parents are taking her back to their Indian village, where some have hailed the child as the reincarnation of her namesake, the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth. “My daughter is going to lead a normal life,” said the girl’s father.

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Two-year-old Lakshmi Tata held by her father during a press conference at The Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, 15 December 2007. (STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images)   (Getty Images)
Two-year-old Indian child Laxmi is carried by her father after a press conference at The Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, 15 December 2007. Lakshmi who was born with four arms and four legs will return home...   (Getty Images)
Two-year-old Lakshmi Tata after surgery to separate her from her headless conjoined twin.   (Getty Images)
Members of the doctors' team pose for photographs after the completion of 24-hour operation on Lakshmi, at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore, India, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2007. The doctors in India completed...   (Associated Press)
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