This rare pregnancy condition gives me chills! A baby girl in China was born pregnant with twin fetuses inside of her. Being born pregnant sounds absolutely insane! I've heard of babies being born with additional body parts, but never a case like this one. The newborn suffered from fetus-in-fetu, a condition that occurs when a developing fetus dies and gets "absorbed" by the healthy twin. According to a study published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal, only 1 in five hundred thousand births suffer from this. Wait until you hear what else the doctors discovered about this case! I have goose bumps.
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Once the fetuses were removed and studied, doctors found that the undeveloped fetuses in the baby's womb must have died when they were about 10 weeks old. The fetuses had grown a spine, intestines and brain matter. They also had an umbilical cord attached. It's possible that the mother was initially pregnant with triples, but then two of the babies died, were absorbed into their sister and continued to grow in her womb. The other possibility is that the baby girl was born with tumors known as teratoma, which are a mesh of different types of tissues.
No matter what scientists and doctors can come up to explain this, there's only one conclusion–this is bizarre as hell! I can't help but wonder if the newborn felt any type of pain during this. The masses were forming between her liver and left kidney. It's a miracle that she was able to survive and was born a perfectly healthy baby. This is the kind of case that would show up in a science fiction movie, but you would never expect this in real life.
Pregnancy and child birth never cease to amaze me. This is the type of story that stays with you and that you pray never happens again.
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