Strange baby (warning: some people may find this upsetting).

[JockSporran]

Have a look at this. Then tell me what you think it is. Personally, I think it is a very premature or underdeveloped baby, born still in the fetal stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vncecwD3xRWc

strangely deformed baby

[dove]

poor poor baby, theres no need at all to video that. I will dream about the poor mite tonight.
:-(

[LoftyLottie]

I did look, not realising just how horrible this would be and not expecting that it would be alive. I wish you hadn't posted this at all. I know you posted a warning, but people are always curious. I hope this gets taken off the site.

[JockSporran]

Apologies to LoftyLottie and anyone else upset, but I DID try to warn you. I feel sorry for the baby and think it wrong that the person who put it on YouTube called it a 'demon', but I was curious as to why it was like that. I wondered if it had been bitten by a dangerous snake, but no, I reckon it is a baby that has underdeveloped beyond a foetus. I've never seen anything like it. If the poor kid survives, he/she will probably be blind.

[Ice.Maiden]

I can understand a certain interest in why you wanted to post this awful vid on AB, Jock - but if the child's real, I find it terrible that the poor thing should be turned into a spectacle. Please don't put any more things like it on here.

[LoftyLottie]

Apology accepted, but I can't get it out of my mind. This is unusual for me.

[4getmenot]

I dont see why either or why someone put it on you tube. Unfortunately there are lots of deformed babies in the world.

[LoftyLottie]

I could deal with looking at the baby, but the fact that is in on U tube as 'demon baby' and has been put on there for entertainment is what has freaked me out. I can't believe how horrible human beings can be to act like this.

[Ice.Maiden]

Exactly. From a medical point of view, the child would be of some interest, but to put it out on YouTube and call it a "demon baby" is beyond comprehension. It's now been reduced to the status of a side-show freak. Sorry - I don't just think it's in bad taste - it's appalling.

[Pippa68]

It has probably been on Rotten.com for yonks. Luckily I can avoid that site.

[Skreecheeboy]

I don't think it's been put there as entertainment. If viewed clinically, i think it's a really interesting subject. I'm amazed that it's still alive.

[4GS]

Any ideas where that baby was born?
I ask because, I used to be an instructor in NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) warfare and seem to remember seeing pictures of children still being born in Hiroshima and Nagasaki with hidious deformaties like those 50 odd years after the atomic bombs fell on those cities

[JockSporran]

I would agree that it shouldn't have been put on YouTube as an entertainment freak called a 'demon baby'. My interest in it is medical and scientific, and I wondered if anyone could explain what was wrong. I didn't think it was possible for a baby to be born alive while still in the foetal stage, but apparently it can happen as this video seems to show.

[LoftyLottie]

Skreecheeboy, It is titled 'demon'!!! This says it all to me. Nobody would put this on youtube for clinical interest imho.

[Kleiber]

I was thinking about the poor wee thing when I went to bed last night. It's obviously in a hotter country than Britain. Its little hands aren't developed properly, so I think it may be very premature (why and how it's survived, I haven't a clue). What I'm wondering, though, is - could the state of its facial features be down to something like over-exposure to the sun (I mean sunburn) because that's what it looks like! If it was very premature, its skin would be so thin that it wouldn't, obviously, have any defence against the sun.

[babybombo]

Its a harlequin baby!

Its not a scientific mystery or a "devil child"!

Google harlequin baby and you'll find out all about them, also search pictures and you'll see babies with the same deformaties.

xx

[JockSporran]

Thanks babybombo - mystery solved! (Thanks also to lucy thomas who suggested it earlier though I didn't check it out).
I am used to seeing medical photographs at work, and some are not pretty, but harlequin ichthyosis is new to me. What a terrible disease - poor baby.

[Bewlay Bros]

Sorry to put a cat amongst the pigeons but I disagree with many comments on here.

Firstly those who looked after a warning was given and thus found the pictures upsetting, well I am sorry but more fool you.

And secondly I disagree about the problem of this as entertainment.

"Entertainment" does not mean you have to have a smile on your face and joke about things. Humour is just one of many faces redarding entertainment. And this is clearly not humour.

However, I will be bold enough to state I am thoroughly entertained by this. Only 70 or so years ago Britain was entertained by travelling freak shows (just like the Elephant Man, albeit 1880's).

People are mentioning Youtube as a seperate media. It is just a modern form of a book or, later TV. Do these people moan about shows on TV EVERYDAY about extra tall people, midgets, huge fat people, a boy whose skin was melting away, a child with proteus sydrome, "The Boy David", Joe Deacon, Ben Hardwick. There are freaks everywhere and they are still on TV for our entertainment (not enjoyment, but entertainment).

The "demon" quote, I agree, maybe insensitive, but many cultures in the world would view such a baby as the Devil!!!

Finally, I would accept that most people have a morbid curiousity. More road accidents are caused by rubber neckers than the actual accidents they are rubber necking. When people see an ambulane, they try and look inside. Some don't but many do. We are a curious animal and anything out of the norm is very watchable, thus entertaining.

[hollie1586]

it makes me cringe