Wow, talk about an instant 'celebrity' baby! A one-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia has been found pregnant. Yes, it's real but not exactly what you're thinking....
The child is actually carrying her unborn twin. Freaky or what? It's called fetus in fetu, and is very rare - with the abnormality occuring in 1 in 500,000 live births.
From Momlogic:
In June, 1999, the case of Sanju Bhagat from India attracted attention. He had unknowingly carried his parasitic "twin" inside his body for 36 years.
Doctors were certain that the man had a gigantic tumor in his belly. However, they found fragments of human genitalia, hairs, limbs and jaws in the patient and finally removed a underdeveloped fetus that had legs and arms with long fingernails.
In 2002, Indian doctors found a six-month-old boy to have a fetus inside. The dead fetus, which surgeons removed from the boy, weighed one kilo, whereas the boy himself weighed 6.5 kilos.
Doctors are now determining the best way to remove the parasitic twin, which is considered "alive" but only because its component tissues have not yet died or been eliminated. The fetus in fetu is compared to an invasive tumor.
Hopefully the baby girl will be OK!
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