Girl Born With “Mermaid Legs” Now Needs Kidney Transplant

Milagros Cerron, a child from Peru known as the “mermaid baby”, is in urgent need of a kidney transplant.
Now eight years old, Milagros Cerron was dubbed the “mermaid baby” because her fused legs resembled the tail of a fish.
In 2005, when Milagros, whose name means miracles in Spanish, was nine-months-old, doctors began the first of three operations to separate her legs.

After Surgery

Seven-year-old Milagros survived sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome — a rare, usually lethal congenital malformation that fused her legs – but now needs surgery to reconstruct her urinary tract. The defect occurs in one out of every 70,000 pregnancies and there are only a three known cases of children with the condition alive in the world. Sironemelia is associated with kidney failure and gastrointestinal defects.

 

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  1. MAMAID BABY:- This is a strange birth. We thank God for her birth over 7 years ago and appreciate the excellent job of the Doctors who carried out a successful surgery on her.
    Her destiny is absolutely in God’s hands. I do not know the degree of stigmatization and it’s impact on the girl, that might also affect the level of success in the hunt for kidney for mamaid baby.
    However, we commit her issue into God’s perfect hands IJN Amen.