A 22 year old mother, from Sahranpur, in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, gave birth to this baby who only lived for 10 minutes because he/she had a rare congenital condition called Sirenomelia also known as ‘Mermaid syndrome’.
The condition is a form of congenital deformity which causes what looks like a single limb, thereby keeping the legs fused together, it also makes it almost impossible to determine the sex of the child after delivery.
Doctors in Indian were astonished as they said they have seen congenital disorders amongst children but this particularly one was an extremely rare case.
A large group of people gathered at at Sahi Ram Hospital for a glimpse of the remarkable new born.
Dr Arya said the condition meant it was impossible to determine the gender of the baby.
The rare congenital deformity causes what looks like a single limb, resembling a fish tail, in the womb.
Medical historian Lindsey Fitzharris, who has a PhD from Oxford University, previously told MailOnline the condition occurs from a failure of the normal vascular supply, when the umbilical cord fails to form two arteries.
The single artery ‘steals’ the blood and nutrition from the lower body, diverting it back up into the placenta.
Suffering malnutrition, the foetus fails to develop two separate limbs. The condition is extremely rare, affecting one in 100,000 babies, but is 100 times more likely to occur in identical twins.
Dr Fitzharris added:
‘Sirenomelia is extremely fatal. There are no accounts of anyone with this condition surviving in the past. Most died within days of being born due to kidney and bladder failure. Even today, the odds are against those with sirenomelia, though there are a handful of examples of children living past infancy.