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Being born pregnant is so rare that it has only been documented 200 times, but it does happen.

Now, researchers have announced that a newborn girl, thought to have had two tumors in her abdomen, was actually housing twin fetuses ranging from 8 to 10 weeks old, according to a report.

The fetuses weighed in at half an ounce and a third of an ounce. They were both far enough along to have four limbs, a spine, a rib cage, intestines and an anus. All organs 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 tells the South China Morning Post.

The condition, called fetus in fetu, is thought to occur in 1 in 500,000 births worldwide.



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Truly bizarre, terrifying, amazingly weird, and strangely interesting!

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Only in China. LOL Seems more unusual things happen in that country than anywhere else in the world.

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Oh wow!

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Wow.

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That's just crazy.

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Fetus in fetu. There have been adults who have tumors diagnosed where it was discovered the mass was leftover fetal tissue from an undeveloped twin fetus. Sometimes it has teeth or other anatomical structures that are identifiable

This is what I found on the case in the OP
A baby girl born in Hong Kong appeared to have a growth of some kind in her left side, but doctors soon discovered the growth contained what could be "absorbed" siblings.

The nearly 9-pound baby girl had a rare condition called fetus-in-fetu, which happens when a partially developed fetus becomes incorporated into a normally developing fetus (its twin) in the womb. This condition affects about 1 in 500,000 births, according to the case study published in the Hong Kong Medical Journal this month.

The mass was between the girl's liver and left kidney, and it included two partially formed fetus-like structures, one weighing half an ounce and the other weighing a third of an ounce.

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It does sound weird, but if you think about it, there are Siamese twins, so it would stand to reason that this could happen. I saw a tv show that had a couple of cases of this, although it wasn't found until the person was much older.



-- Edited by tlc on Tuesday 10th of February 2015 02:26:42 PM

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I saw this yesterday. It made me very curious as to what those who are staunchly against abortion in any and all cases would say.

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I saw this yesterday. It made me very curious as to what those who are staunchly against abortion in any and all cases would say.

 First - I doubt those fetuses are viable and developing, and second - this baby will die if they are not taken out of her.



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My brother absorbed his identical twin. He had a massive cyst on his tailbone with teeth, tissue and bone removed when he was a teenager.
This is more common then people realize.
And, LL is right. The infant would die without the removal on these growths that are not viable by any means of the word. This is a true accident of nature.

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I think that using the word "pregnant" in the title of the article is very misleading. This baby isn't pregnant. She has non living fetal tissue inside of her. Big difference.

 

and...the masses were in between her liver and kidney. Doesn't sound like a pregnancy. Sounds like tumors. I don't like when words are used to sensationalize like this. She is not and has never been pregnant. 



-- Edited by Mellow Momma on Wednesday 11th of February 2015 09:56:44 AM

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Lawyerlady wrote:
chef wrote:

I saw this yesterday. It made me very curious as to what those who are staunchly against abortion in any and all cases would say.

 First - I doubt those fetuses are viable and developing, and second - this baby will die if they are not taken out of her.

I agree on both counts. Someone I talked to about this when I first saw it ... not so much. 



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chef wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
chef wrote:

I saw this yesterday. It made me very curious as to what those who are staunchly against abortion in any and all cases would say.

 First - I doubt those fetuses are viable and developing, and second - this baby will die if they are not taken out of her.

I agree on both counts. Someone I talked to about this when I first saw it ... not so much. 

 Did that person understand the rumors were found between her liver and her kidneys? Not exactly in utero. 

 

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I agree the words chosen are for shock value and not an accurate account.

Isnt this the same as a parasitic twin? Or is it different things?

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Mellow Momma wrote:

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chef wrote:
Lawyerlady wrote:
chef wrote:

I saw this yesterday. It made me very curious as to what those who are staunchly against abortion in any and all cases would say.

 First - I doubt those fetuses are viable and developing, and second - this baby will die if they are not taken out of her.

I agree on both counts. Someone I talked to about this when I first saw it ... not so much. 

 Did that person understand the rumors were found between her liver and her kidneys? Not exactly in utero. 

 

no

 That person is very VERY anti-abortion. It wouldn't matter where the fetuses were found. They exist and, in that person's opinion, should be transplanted to a surrogate uterus where they could grow.

I did a lot of no in that discussion.



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