When a person finds out they're going to be a parent, the anticipation can be overwhelming. The first thought is often "will it be a boy or a girl?" Then they fret over the baby's health (Will it have any diseases? What if it's born with a disability?). There may also be worries about supporting the baby financially, or whether or not they're prepared to be a parent.
Most experienced parents will tell new parents this: prepare for the unexpected!
Sometimes a pregnancy itself can be a bit of a "surprise." I've seen stories where women haven't known they were even pregnant until rushed to the hospital. I've also read about women who were completely dumbfounded when their child is born weighing over 14 pounds.
One Utah woman was told she'd never be able to have kids — but, after years of trying, she did. In fact, she gave birth to two sets of identical twins in the same pregnancy. The odds of this happening were nearly one in 70 million.
As crazy as those stories are, I recently read about a woman in Hong Kong who gave birth to a little girl…who was pregnant with twins herself.
Find out how this is possible below and please SHARE this incredible story.
The baby was born in November of 2010 at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong. The newborn girl was required to undergo surgery to remove what they believed to be two cancerous tumors in her abdomen.
Eight days later, she continued to recover healthily, so her family was released from the hospital.
The South China Morning Post reports that the doctors later discovered that the “tumors” were actually the fetuses of twin babies, and now the Hong Kong Medical Journal has confirmed these findings.
According to this report, each fetus was at approximately ten week gestation with a spine, rib cage, intestines, four limbs, and brain tissue.
The condition is called “fetus in fetu” and is obviously incredibly rare, occurring in one in every 500,000 births. Approximately less than 200 cases have actually been reported and there are varying theories on how this anomaly might occur.
Dr. Yu Kai-man, a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong says, “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.”
However, the actual released report says the actual cause is unknown. Some theorize it might be “absorbed siblings,” and the World Health Organization still classifies it as a type of cancer called “mature teratoma.”
The girl has continued to grow up and lead a perfectly normal, healthy life.
The world works in some mysterious ways! I’m just grateful to hear that the girl and her parents are all doing fine now.
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