Being born pregnant is so rare that there are only approximately 200 recorded cases. This is one of them. A newborn baby thought to have had two tumors in her abdomen when she was born, was actually “pregnant” with two fetuses thought to have been 8 – 10 weeks gestation.
Weighing half an ounce and a third of an ounce, they were each developed enough to have four limbs, a spine, a rib cage, intestines, and an anus, and to be connected through an umbilical cord to a single placenta-like mass.
“Since it is impossible for the little girl to have conceived the pregnancy on her own, the fertilization of the twin fetuses, of course, belongs to her parents, which has gone to the wrong place,” a local doctor tells the South China Morning Post.
The condition is known as fetus in fetu and is thought to occur in 1 out of 500,000 births worldwide.
The baby girl had a successful surgery to remove the twins at just 2 weeks old.
