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  • Baby Born Pregnant: Condition Due to Previous Abortions?

    A baby being born pregnant sounds like the beginning of a weird sci-fi movie.

    However, shockingly, this is something that actually happens.

    It’s rare, but there have been close to 200 documented cases of a baby born pregnant.

    The most recent case, a baby born pregnant in 2010, was thought to have two tumors in her abdomen.

    But after successful surgery at two weeks old, it was determined that the tumors were actually fetuses.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsldfCVptb4

    Those fetuses inherently classified the little girl as a rare baby born pregnant. The fetuses she was born with in her abdomen were eight-10 weeks developed.

    They even had spines, intestines, bones with bone marrow, “primitive” brain matter, anuses, rib cages, and umbilical cords. One weighed 14.2 grams and the other 9.3 grams.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14PnRTV7IKs

    But, the baby girl wasn’t really technically pregnant with them.

    “Since it is impossible for the little girl to have conceived the pregnancy on her own, the fertilization of the twin fetuses, of course, belongs to her parents, which has gone to the wrong place,” Dr. Yu Kai-man told the South China Morning Post.

    The condition is called fetus-in-fetu and is apparently almost undetectable in the live baby until after birth.

    Dr. Yu said, “It was almost impossible to detect during the prenatal check-up, as the embryo inside the baby was too small.”

    The report stated that the reasons for a baby being born pregnant are still unknown.

    However, in this case, researchers suspect that it may have something to do with the mother previously having numerous abortions. However, the World Health Organisation has classified fetus-in-fetu as a variant of mature teratoma, a type of cancer.

    They say more evidence is needed to prove either theory.

    What do you think of the news that a baby could be born pregnant?

  • Baby Born Pregnant: Chinese Baby Born ‘Pregnant’ With Twin Fetuses

    No, you read the headline correctly.

    A baby born ‘pregnant’ in China in 2010 was carrying two fetuses in her abdomen, according to the Hong Kong Medical Journal.

    In prenatal scans, a large mass was found in the baby’s abdomen, which doctors believed was a tumor. When the baby was born, she was admitted to a neonatal unit and 14 days later, new scans revealed the mass was actually made up of two separate structures.

    Within the structures were two small fetuses, complete with spines, well-developed rib cages, intestines, primitive brain tissue and were connected through an umbilical cord to a single placenta-like mass.

    “Since it is impossible for the little girl to have conceived the pregnancy on her own, the fertilization of the twin fetuses, of course, belongs to her parents, which has gone to the wrong place,” a local doctor told the South China Morning Post.

    The baby girl recovered well from the operation and was discharged from the hospital.

    Fewer than 200 cases of twin fetus-in-fetu, as this phenomenon is known, have been reported worldwide. It is estimated to occur in one in 500,000 births.

    It is not yet known how this phenomenon occurs, although some believe it could be the case that a baby in the womb absorbs a twin, or in this case, two babies in a set of triplet. The World Health Organisation defines it as a type of cancer.

  • Baby Born Pregnant: Infant Girl Born With Twins

    “Baby born pregnant” is not a term you read every day, but the sensational headline isn’t just hyperbole; an infant girl was born in Hong Kong in 2010 with what doctors thought was abdominal tumors. Upon examination, it turned out she was carrying twin fetuses which had been absorbed while she was in the womb.

    The fetuses were developed enough to have a spine, rib cage, four limbs, and anuses and were thought to be between 8 and 10 weeks old. Of course, they were conceived by the baby girl’s parents, but exactly how they ended up inside her is still a mystery to scientists, who say the condition is extremely rare and affects only one in 500,000 births around the world. Fewer than 200 cases have ever been reported.

    The baby girl had a successful surgery to remove the fetuses, but the story made it into the Hong Kong Medical Journal as it is a subject of high interest to those in the medical field.

    From the journal:

    Despite a difference in the weight of the twin fetuses-in-fetu, the level of organogenesis was identical and corresponded to fetuses of 10 weeks of gestation. Each mass had four limbs, intact skin, rib cage, intestines, anus, ambiguous genitalia, primitive brain tissue and a spine with ganglion cells in the cord. Although considered a mature teratoma in the current World Health Organization classification, the theory of formation from multiple pregnancies has been commonly implied in more recent literature. The true aetiology of this rare condition remains unclear.

    In other strange medical occurrences, a little over a year ago,an 82-year old Columbian woman went to the hospital complaining of stomach pains, only to discover that she had a nearly 40-year old fetus inside her. Sometimes called a “stone baby“, the phenomenon occurs when a fetus grows outside the uterus and the mother’s body begins to calcify it to protect herself from infection.