Foetus found inside 84-year-old woman

[Jazzy]

A 44-year-old foetus has been discovered inside an 84-year-old Brazilian woman after she went to hospital with intense stomach pains.

According to Brazilian news website G1, the woman remembers suffering pain during her pregnancy over 40 years ago and visiting a healer for help.

After taking what he'd prescribed, "her stomach didn't grow any more, the baby stopped moving, and she thought it had been aborted," said a gynecologist at the Tocantins hospital last Friday.

The gynecologist says X-rays revealed "the face, the bones of the arms, of the legs, the ribs, and the spine" of the foetus, which is believed to have died at between 20 and 28 weeks.

The rare phenomenon is known as lithopedion, in which the foetus grows and then dies outside of the uterus.

With the body unable to rid itself of it, the dead foetus is instead covered in calcium as a means of protection, resulting in a "stone baby."

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What a surprise that must have been to see in an Xray!

 

[Evil Eye]

Yeah. Pretty morbid too.