Little Girl Born With Three Legs Able To Walk And Run Again After Reconstructive Surgery!!

Choity Khatun, 3, was born in a village in Bangladesh with a condition called cordial twinning, which meant she had a part of a twin develop in her perineum. This is a very rare case as head of surgery at Monash Children’s Hospital Professor Chris Kimber said. Many of these children die in the womb, or they die soon after birth, but it was amazing that Choity had survived her first two years of age!
When Choity was just a few weeks old, she was taken to the main children’s hospital in Bangladesh and the doctors were perplexed as to what to do.

“Everything was connected in the wrong place, in the long term, she was highly likely to get overwhelming infections and die from those,” Professor Kimber said. The doctors in Bangladesh cut open her tummy and attached her bowel to her skin so she would not die from bowel obstruction.
Her mother, Shima Khatun said she did not understand what was wrong with Choity when she was first born, she said: “The doctor said she was like a twin baby, it was sad because our first son had died.”

Choity got another shot at life when the Australian charity Children First Foundation came across the case and brought her over to Melbourne last year. A team of surgeons spent several months mapping out a procedure to reconstruct her anatomy.

Professor Chris Kimber said, “A twin had grown out of her pelvis but the twin was only part of a twin … The problem is there’s no rulebook for this because she’s a very unique individual so you have to try and work out what was where.”
He added that when Choity arrived in Australia, she was very malnourished, she couldn’t walk properly at all.

Apparently, Choity’s condition meant that body parts from a twin developed in her perineum, which is the area between the anus and the vulva. This caused her to have two rectums, anuses, vaginas, and uteruses, the doctors found after examining her under anesthetic, she was also found to be incontinent.

mber calls it, was finally carried out in November and involved eight doctors who specialise in genital and pelvic reconstructions working on the girl for eight hours.

“When we started we thought she might end up being incontinent for life, but as we went on we found extra muscles and were able to reconstruct reasonable normal anatomy, and we’ve been able to achieve way beyond what we expected,” he said.
“We spent three or four months thinking about it, presenting it to other doctors, getting ideas from around the world, and then based on lots of world opinion, we were able to come up with something that clearly works,” he added.
The little girl is also partially blind but through an ophthalmologist’s examination at the hospital, they found that her sight could not be improved. But she has sufficient sight to now walk and run like other children!

This was a key triumph for the surgeons, including Professor Chris Kimber himself as they were able to help her become continent!
Great for the little girl! Glad she gets to have a happy and free childhood!! Thank you kind hearted people at the Australian charity Children First Foundation and the surgeons who worked on Choity, bless your soul!