A friend of a friend's baby was born with some slits on her neck that supposedly never closed prior to birth. The mother claims these slits are normal and help the baby to breathe while inside the womb but should close up before birth. Hers didn't.
Since she was born 4 months ago, fluid leaks from these slits and the baby will have to undergo surgery to close these slits or "gills" in a few more months.
Can you shed any light on this? I have never it of it before in my life, and I am 60 years old.
2007-12-27 10:54:49 · 7 answers · asked by jeannie109@sbcglobal.net 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
I seriously never heard of it, unless its a fish.
2007-12-27 11:02:44 · answer #1 · answered by Sabrina K 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am having baby number 2, came from a family of 5 kids, and I have 4 nieces, I also read as much as I can about pregnancy and So far I havent heard of any sort of gills on babies. But I would really like to know if any one else has,
2007-12-27 19:01:31 · answer #2 · answered by mjoy2685 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
babies do not have 'gills'!! perhaps it is some kind of a rare skin disorder that i have never heard of. i am a pediatric and nursery nurse and i have never heard of that happening or anything i can even relate it to. babies get their oxygen from mom through and exchange in the placenta and the vessels there. as babies grow in the womb they do practice breathing by in haling the amniotic fluid but use no gills of any sort for oxygenation. that is a solid fact! i don't know what may be causing the slits in the baby's throat...sounds odd to me. at any rate...they should be fixed immediately. any open wound is cause for infection. get it looked at by a pediatrician asap!
2007-12-27 19:11:05 · answer #3 · answered by daisy 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
i have never heard of such a thing. that sounds almost like a practical joke. you would have thought that in all our years as human beings more stories would be out there such as this but i have never heard of "baby gills" its probably not true. i hope its not true. maybe a doctor reading this can shed some light on the issue
2007-12-27 19:04:26 · answer #4 · answered by +FaBiAn+ 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It is true. During development of the fetus there is a stage where there are "gills" that appear on the neck and disappear as the fetus develops more fully.
It appears that this child had a "glitch" during fetal development and the "gills" didn't close.
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2007-12-27 19:06:23 · answer #5 · answered by Albannach 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
gills? - never heard of that.
2007-12-27 19:01:52 · answer #6 · answered by Lou 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i have never heard of such a thing!
2007-12-27 19:00:08 · answer #7 · answered by blondie 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋