[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

I think she's actually in the Guinness Book of Records for longest "pregnancy"

She did adopt, LadyC. If I'm not mistaken, several children.

Found the video here:
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Doctors figured she had an ectopic pregnancy and the fallopian tube exploded as the fetus grew. It weighed 7 pounds after 46 years.

Dissected foetus showng organs below.

[LadyCPlum]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles ↗

Doctors figured she had an ectopic pregnancy and the fallopian tube exploded as the fetus grew. It weighed 7 pounds after 46 years.

But if her fallopian tube exploded it should have killed her....

[HeadlessHorseman]

Liver baby and stone babies are some very weird shit.

[HeadlessHorseman]

Originally Posted by diamondsmiles ↗

She did adopt, LadyC. If I'm not mistaken, several children.

Found the video here:
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Doctors figured she had an ectopic pregnancy and the fallopian tube exploded as the fetus grew. It weighed 7 pounds after 46 years.

Amazing story, so happy everyone survived. Whats up with hubby's face? Something I have always found strange is when you see these people in these dirty third world countries their clothes are always so clean. There is dust and dirt everywhere and they are most often wearing white and their clothes look brand new. I can't imagine they even have washing machines. It must be some type of magic.

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by mikejudd ↗

Why do they say livers... What is this woman with livers and a liver baby?

Where I live, the Chinese never use plurals for words.

For instance, "Auto Tag", on a sign, and, "chicken with vegetable", on a menu.

[DiamondSmiles]

Originally Posted by LadyCPlum ↗

But if her fallopian tube exploded it should have killed her....

She survived that and lived with a calcified baby for all those years.

I do not know how long it takes for a baby to calcify.

The below article states, the foetus grew and exploded out of the fallopian tube.

It also states she adopted 3 children.

**46 Year Pregnancy**

Zahra Aboutalib and her Sleeping Baby

Extraordinary People

in 1955 in a small village just outside Casablanca, 26 year old Zahra Aboutalib is pregnant with her first child. She was looking forward to giving birth, but after 48 hours of painful labour, she was rushed to the local hospital. Doctors informed her that she would need a caesarean section. On the ward Zahra saw a woman in terrible pain die in child-birth. She fled the hospital fearing she would meet the same fate if she remained.

In the days that followed, Zahra continued to suffer excruciating labour pains but the baby remained resolutely in her womb. After a few more days the pains ceased and the baby stopped moving.

In Moroccan culture, it is believed that a baby can sleep inside the mother to protect her honour. Zahra believed this myth and put the pregnancy out of her mind. She adopted three children and in due course they made her a grandmother.

Many years later when Zahra was 75 years old, the pains suddenly returned. Her son being concerned for his mother's well-being wanted her to see a specialist. For this they had to travel to Rabat where they saw Professor Taibi Ouazzani. He suspected the protruding belly was being caused by an ovarian tumour and arranged for her to have an ultra-sound scan. This revealed a large mass that he could not identify.

He referred Zahra to a specialist radiographer for a second opinion. He could see it was a calcified structure of some sort, but it took a detailed MRI scan to reveal that it was the baby Zahra had conceived 46 years earlier.

Zahra had an ectopic pregnancy where the egg had implanted in the fallopian tube. The foetus that developed, burst out of the fallopian tube and continued to develop in the abdominal cavity. It survived by attaching it's placenta to vital organs around her stomach.

Professor Ouazzania was faced with a difficult decision when deciding if it would be safe to try and remove the foetus. The foetus weighed 7lb and measured 42cm in length.


Stone Baby

When they operated they discovered that the foetus had calcified and was a hard, solid lump. It was, essentially, a stone-baby. More concerning was the fact that it had fused with her abdominal wall and vital organs.

After nearly 4 hours the surgeons manage to remove the calcified foetus from Zahra and the operation is hailed a success.

In an ectopic pregnancy, if the dead foetus is too large to be re-absorbed by the mother's body it becomes a foreign body to the mother's immune system. To protect itself from possible infection the mother's body will encase the foetus in a calciferous substance as the tissues die and dehydrate.

As the calciferous wall builds up, the foetus is gradually mummified becoming a lithopedion or stone baby.

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Originally Posted by HeadlessHorseman ↗

Amazing story, so happy everyone survived. Whats up with hubby's face? Something I have always found strange is when you see these people in these dirty third world countries their clothes are always so clean. There is dust and dirt everywhere and they are most often wearing white and their clothes look brand new. I can't imagine they even have washing machines. It must be some type of magic.

Perhaps the tv crew brings them clean clothes, but, leave the people dirty to appear more authentic, or they decline a shower and makeup.

No clue really

I added a picture of the dissected stone baby

Since you find this interesting, you might like to see it.

[Spiffyfable]

Alcoholic Baby

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Originally Posted by Spiffyfable ↗

Alcoholic Baby

That would probably be one born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.

He/she would rock back and forth as he/she got older.

The child may also display behavioral issues and learning disabilities as he/she got a bit olders.

I don't know a lot about the condition or whether it can be controlled as the child gets older.

[Degu]

What a disgusting little parasite