Shiloh Pepin and her Mermaid Syndrome

Check the video below of Shiloh Pepin the girl with a Mermaid Syndrome (sirenomelia). Her lower extremities fused a missing bladder, uterus, colon and vagina, with only one partial kidney and one ovary. Her parents initially anticipated she could expect only a few months of life.

Sirenomelia, alternatively known as mermaid syndrome is a very rare congenital deformity in which the legs are fused together, giving the appearance of a mermaid's tail.

This condition is found in approximately one out of every 100,000 live births(about as rare as conjoined twins) and is usually fatal within a day or two of birth because of complications associated with abnormal kidney and bladder development and function. It results from a failure of normal vascular supply from the lower aorta in utero. Maternal diabetes has been associated with caudal regression syndrome and sirenomelia,although this association is not generally accepted.[source wikipedia]