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Happy Birthday, Kid Formed in Mom’s Liver!
Let’s all sing a festive round of happy birthday to Nhlahla Ncise, a South African girl who turns five tomorrow. That’s a pretty impressive accomplis
hment, considering she was formed in her mother’s liver.
Nhlahla’s mother, Cwayita, thought something was wrong during the pregnancy because at six months along, she still wasn’t showing. Doctors discovered that her womb was empty because, instead of setting up camp in her uterus, the fertilized egg had attached itself to Cwayita’s liver and continued to grow into little Nhlahla.
Doctors performed a complicated procedure to remove the child, successfully giving birth to the baby, who has lived a healthy, normal life ever since. Extrauterine pregnancies like these usually don’t have such happy endings. At the time of her birth, Nhlahla was only the fourth child to ever survive a pregnancy like this one.
So happy birthday, Nhlahla. A special twist on this story is the miracle baby’s name. It means “luck” in Zulu.
Photo: BBC News
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2 Comments
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amIt’s wonderful that they were able to identify the problem, since there was no possible way she could have birthed the child naturally. Hooray for luck!
Anonymous commented on Jan 01 70 at 12:00 amMy aunt had a miscarriage because of an embryo attached to her liver. My aunt nearly died, and the baby did. It was horribly tragic. It is really cool to see a successful pregnancy.
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