**UPDATE** Babygirl Lakshmi's Left the building!!

Girl Born With 8 Limbs Leaves Hospital
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BANGALORE, India — A 2-year-old girl who was born with four arms

and four legs left a hospital in southern India on Saturday, little more than a month after surgeons successfully removed her extra
limbs. (story continued below)

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Lakshmi, 2, center, sits in her father's lap as her brother, right, looks on before she was discharged from the Sparsha Hospital in Bangalore, India, Saturday, Dec. 15, 2007. Lakshmi, an Indian girl born with four arms and four legs was discharged from the hospital after a successful operation where doctors removed her extra limbs. (AP Photo/Aijaz Rahi)

The surgeon who led more than 30 doctors in the marathon surgery said Lakshmi was making good progress and should be mobile soon.

"Lakshmi is fine and stable," chief surgeon Dr. Sharan Patil told The Associated Press. "She should face no problem in walking."

Lakshmi was born joined at the pelvis to a "parasitic twin" that stopped developing in her mother's womb. The surviving fetus absorbed the limbs, kidneys and other body parts of the undeveloped twin.

A team of more than 30 surgeons performed a 24-hour operation on Nov. 7 at the Sparsh hospital in Bangalore, the capital of southern Karnataka state. They removed the extra limbs, transplanted a kidney from the twin and reconstructed Lakshmi's pelvic area.

"Lakshmi is a hero," Patil said Saturday.

"Lakshmi, who never turned (over) earlier, started turning after the surgery. She was even able to stand for 10 minutes on the bed holding the window grill, which is remarkable," the Press Trust of India news agency quoted Patil as saying.

Lakshmi's parents said they were taking her back to their rural village in eastern Bihar state where she had been revered by some as an incarnation of the four-armed Hindu goddess she was named after.

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You go, Lakshmi!!!
I hope to hear good things about her, in the future!!

*UPDATE 11.09.07* Lakshmi

Fam for those who are following Lakshi, formerly known as "girl with 8 limbs" here's an update for you with great pics: click here

Lakshmi, 2-year old from India born with 8 (EIGHT) limbs in surgery

Lakshmi-litle girl born with 8 limbs (scroll down to see pics)

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I've heard of medical phenomenons, and i've seen parasitic twins. Remember the Egyptian baby who had her twin's head adjoined to hers? Her and her mother appeared on Oprah Winfrey's show.

Well, what can only be described as absolutely incredible, is little 2-year old Lakshmi of India. Lakshmi is carrying her parasitic twin-a different way.

At the bottom of her trunk is a pair of legs, a pair of arms and a partial torso.

You can even see where Lakshmi's twin head is supposed to be.

This beautiful little girl has no idea that her name will be in the history books.

Today, with a team of 30 doctors, Lakshmi's life will change forever as doctors are working feverishly to separate her from her twin.

In addition to having had two fused spines separated, Lakshmi also has she has four kidneys, entangled nerves, two stomach cavities and two chest cavities. She cannot stand up or walk. source

Unlike in America, where children with deformities are teased, ridiculed & shunned, Lakshmi is revered. Revered so much so, that she was named after a goddess of wealth.

Here's to good health for Lakshmi, and I pray that she will be able to walk, run and play to her heart's content.