Incredible as it may seem, there was actually a woman who was pregnant for 46 years. I watched the documentary yesterday and was just amazed at how the human body can entombed this fetus within the woman for that long. This phenomenon is known as 'stone baby' or Lithopedian (Greek: Stone, Pedian: Baby) where the baby begins to form a calcified mass after a while.
Kinda sad but in a twist of luck, the fact the woman fled from the hospital 50 years ago probably saved her life. At the time the doctors wouldn't have known what to do and had they preform a C section on her, she would have died there. This is her [A href="http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/12796_pregnancy.html"]story[/A].
[P align=justify]Last year, an elderly woman attended a clinic in Rabat, Morocco. The lady complained she was feeling heaviness in the lower part of her stomach and experienced shortness of breath.
[P align=justify]X-ray indicated that the lady needed immediate surgery. The surgery was conducted the next day. Surgeons made a Caesarian section and extracted a formless calcified lump. As it was later determined, this respected Moroccan woman got pregnant 46 years ago!
[!-- TEXT BLOCK 2 --] [P align=justify]She's been carrying her future baby for 7 months, when the fetus died while still in the womb. With time, the fetus has fossilized after being saturated with calcium produced by female's organism. Most remarkable of all is that this fossilized "cocoon" did not affect the overall mother's condition. The "calcified mummy" will now be exhibited at the capital's clinic of medical marvels.
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[P align=justify][A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithopedion"]What is Lithopedian?[/A]
