Doctors opened the intensive care room door today to give the world its first look at 13-month-old Milagros Cerron since surgery to separate her fused legs.

Surgeons began a delicate operation on Peru’s bright-eyed “little mermaid” today – a baby girl born with legs fused from her thighs to her ankles.

Milagros Cerron smiles, babbles and fidgets in the arms of her mother like any healthy nine-month-old, but she is no ordinary baby.