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When she first saw her newborn, she experienced fear and depression.
The mother of a baby girl with polymelia who underwent successful surgery at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, is the subject of this account.
Baby Adepa, as we have decided to call her, was born with polymelia, or multiple limbs.
She is thought by doctors to be an imperfect separation of twins. She possessed two pelvises, two external genitalia, and four legs.
The girl’s mother claims that when she first met her kid, she was terrified of her.
Despite the fact that her maternal instincts wanted her to live, she was unable to touch her child and fell into a depressed mood.
She admitted to Beatrice Spio-Garbrah, “I was so afraid of my baby I couldn’t carry her as any mother would; I cried almost every day I was in a state of depression.”
Mother and child were admitted to KATH for surveillance for seven months.
Senior Specialist in Orthopeadic Surgery at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital Dr Konadu Yeboah explains the case was a rare one in humans.
Dr. Konadu Yeboah remarked, “This is the first case I have encountered in my line of work. When the baby was sent to Komfo Anokye and we met her, it seemed weird to us.
He said further that “We searched the scientific literature to see if there had ever been a case somewhere in the world, but we discovered that this is rather common in pigs and chicken but rare in humans.”
Baby Adepa underwent a five and a half hour surgery by a team of pediatric and orthopedic surgeons.
A delighted mother expresses her gratitude to the doctors for her daughter’s improvement as she joyfully caresses her newborn.
She advises mothers who have children who are impaired in any way to get them medical care.
I want to encourage mothers who give birth to malformed infants to seek medical attention for them and not disown them because I am satisfied with the way my baby girl is now, she said.
The surgeons, who anticipated a low success rate, praise the results and beg parents not to reject their malformed children at birth.
By Owusu Boateng Quansah|locotvgh.com