Ectopia Informative Speech

Pregnancy can be a wonderful experience. After nine long months, the moment when you see your baby for the first time is pure unadulterated joy and satisfaction. Unfortunately, for some this joyful moment turns into a nightmare very quickly. Today, we present to you 10 rare birth diseases that will leave you speechless.

#10 Congenital Arhinia Congenital Arhinia is a very rare condition that has only occured 43 times in the world since it was first recorded in 1931. A person with Arhinia is born without external nose and sense of smell. The cause of this abnormality is unknown to doctors. In Alabama, on March 2015, a baby was born without a nose and according to his parents the boy is ‘Perfect the way he is’. He may not have nose but sure

The presence of a live, beating heart outside the chest is probably the most distressing thing you can see in the delivery room. Babies born with this malformation have their hearts located partially or totally outside of the chest in places like the neck or the abdomen. With occurence of only 8 per million births, Ectopia Cordis is one of the rarest and most fetal abnormalities. Texas baby girl, Audrina or ‘miracle baby’ as they call her, was the only one strong enough to survive against all odds. After the surgery she is wearing a cute pink shield to protect her heart. You go girl!

#8 Progeria Progeria also known as the Hutchinson- Gilford Syndrome is one of the most heartbreaking childhood diseases that affects 118 children in the world today. Children with Progeria age very rapidly and extremely prematurely. They develop wrinkles and lose their hair but the brain is not affected. To see a very smart and brave teen looking like a 80 year- old senior is tragic. Child trapped in old person’s body is the best way to describe this rare genetic mutation.

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Just like dragons and griffins, babies born with polymelia have accessory limbs attached to various body regions. An eight- limbed baby born in Jharkhand, India has turned his hometown into a pilgrimage destination where thousands of people came to worship the baby as the reincarnation of the Hindu God Ganesha. Sure, every baby is a blessing and a gift from God, but this infant is believed to be ‘God’s child’. The two extra arms and two extra legs came of what was an underdeveloped co- joined twin.

#5 Cyclopia Cyclops is a one- eyed giant creature from the Greek mythology and Cyclopia is the disease named after him. The baby from the photo loooks unearthly and it’s not hard to see the resemblance between the two. In 2006, a baby girl in India was born with one eye in the center of her forehead, without a nose and her brain was fused in a single hemisphere. Suprisingly, she lived beyond the 11th day and was believed to be a physical manifestation of a God. Although, cyclopia is a very rare disease, a few human babies are preserved in a medical museum in Amsterdam. Alcoholism, diabetes, anti- cancer therapy and ingestion of toxins are among the several known causes of