Baby Milagros

Fox News is reporting on the story of a 13-month old girl from Peru who was born with Sirenomelia (a.k.a. Mermaid Syndrome). She is undergoing the first of several operations to seperate her legs, which were seamlessly fused from the ankles to the upper thighs when she was born. The doctors are optimistic that the operation will be successful. The first surgery, a team of eleven doctors will seperate her legs from the ankles up to the knees. Sirnomelia is fairly rare - inflicting one in every 70,000 births. Milagros (which is Spanish for "Miracle") is one of three children alive in the world with Sirnomelia. Please keep Milagros and her family and her doctors in your prayers.