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Girl Born With 8 Limbs Gets to Go Home

Doctors say little Lakshmi in India is doing well

By Wesley Oliver,  Newser Staff

Posted Dec 15, 2007 3:35 PM CST
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(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.

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)
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 Lakshmi Tata after surgery to separate her from her headless conjoined twin.
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 a grueling 24-hour operation on a girl born with four arms and four legs, and surgeons said the...
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)
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 after recovering from a 27-hour operation to separate her from a headless, conjoined twin, said...
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)
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