Girl Born With “Mermaid Legs” Now Needs Kidney Transplant!
― Milagros Cerron, a child from Peru known as the “mermaid baby”, is in urgent need of a kidney transplant. ∙ Now eight years old, Milagros Cerron was dubbed the “mermaid baby” because her fused legs resembled the tail of a fish. ∙ In 2005, when Milagros, whose name means miracles in Spanish, was nine-months-old, doctors began the first of three operations to separate her legs. ∙ Seven-year-old Milagros survived sirenomelia, or mermaid syndrome — a rare, usually [...].
