Monday, December 27, 2021

A 35-YEAR PREGNANCY THAT'S NOT A RECORD ..... IN 2001 A MOROCCAN WOMAN GAVE BIRTH TO A STONE BABY AFTER A 46-YEAR PREGNANCY

Mummified 'stone baby' found in belly of old woman, 73, which she carried for 35 years

 

By Sayantani Nath


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December 27, 2021

 

 

Lithopedion                                                     Lithopedion or stone baby

 

In today's quota of bizarre news, we have a 73-year-old woman from Skikda, Algeria who was found with a petrified 'stone baby' in her womb, that she has been carrying around for over 35 years. The shocking discovery was made by a medical at a health facility in the eastern Algerian city, where the elderly lady came in with the complaint of abnormal body pain. She has otherwise lived a normal life for decades, without ever feeling the presence of the calcified fetus inside her own body.

While 'stone baby' is definitely a medical miracle, the Algerian woman is not the first woman to experience the same. It is actually a highly rare condition where a calcified fetus called lithopedion can stay inside a woman's womb for years without any external symptoms. In fact, there are only 290 reported cases of lithopedion across history. The first-ever such case was recorded back in 1582 when a 'stone baby' was found in the belly of a French woman named Madame Colombe Chatri, after she passed away at the age of 68 years.

 

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