The title speaks for itself... can anyone tell me what a Harlequin baby is??? I've seen Xodiak draw it many times and I heard that a Harlequin baby is actually real??? But someone, anyone tell me please!!!

n_n; Its hard to explain...
http://www.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk/dhmhd-bin/hum-look-up?737
Thats just a description of what it is..

[admin note: this link has photos that may offend some people, view at your own risk]
here are some pictures of a baby with that disease. >8)
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Harlequin fetus is the most severe form of congenital ichthyosis with an incidence of one in 300.000 births. An autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance is seen in this disorder. However; a new autosomal dominant mutation may possibly be responsible. The disorder has an ominous prognosis since the neonates usually die in the first hours or days of life

that baby really looks alien
freaky

I'm kinda scared of going to the website Xodiac... are the babies really scary lookin'???

Actually they are very deformed and scary. Poor babies.
Some people are scared of disfiguring diseases and images of heavily injured people. Some other, mostly morbid or gothic people like to watch them for fun. And some people like doctors or medical examiners are used to watching them because otherwise they would not be able to treat sick people or find the causes of death of people who passed away.
I found that photo because I like to find disturbing sources for drawing inspiration. >:)
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it's been about one week since i peeped at the pictures and i still find myself very disturbed by the images (.__. ;;)
so i think if you're scared, you shouldn't go :')

i saw them too...i was 'shocked' too, but i went further looking on the interet...man, how many seriously deformed children and diseases are there... i sure would have doubts about wanting a baby if i lived in iraque (since a very big part of the malformations are oly seen there) (*cries*)

I agree, it is the depleated uranium that causes all that.
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**looks** O.O ...thats...dear god! ok maybe i'm exagerating but its not pretty...**is getting sick**

Oh my god!!!! They look terrible and I feel really sorry for them. They never got to live out their lives. I'm gonna have nightmares.. Freaky, Xodiak. You are one of a kind, Xodiak. I suppose.

Let me just say...I have a new fear. I looked yesterday and still can't get over it....and now I have my friend freaked out too cuz SHE looked...whoo! Wait, she says it's not as freaky the second time as long as you don't look for longer than 5 seconds. Okay, I'm gonna try it.