baby inside baby?!
Posted on August 2, 2007
Despite the enormous number of normal pregnancies that occur year after year, how a fetus develops inside the mother's womb is not as easy as 1-2-3. Sometimes, some quirky thing happens that makes the pregnancy into another level other than what's normal. Unfortunately, some babies are born with congenital defects. If you are fortunate enough, the most out of the ordinary thing that could happen would be multiple births - twins, triplets, etc. Still, having twins can still have other unwanted scenarios like having siamese twins.
Recently in Chile, another quirky thing has happened. A baby was born with a fetus inside its abdomen! The baby was born with a 10 cm fetus inside him. The doctors successfully took out the fetus. According to the article in New York Post,
It had limbs and a partially developed spinal cord but no head and stood no chance of survival, doctors said.
"It's very rare," said Maria Angelica Belmar, head of the hospital's neonatal wing.
"It occurs in only one in every 500,000 live births," she said, adding that the number of cases recorded worldwide was fewer than 90.
The whole thing felt creepy to me at first. For the whole nine months, the mother has a baby inside her and this baby also has another baby inside him. Reminds me of a japanese doll, the wooden kinds of dolls that have several more dolls inside them. It's also amazing at the same time - the things nature comes up with.
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double YAY! ey, i have that Russian dolls! they’re really cute.
@Daisy - Yup, they’re cute. But imagining it happening in real life is creepy… hehe! Double YAY indeed!