{"id":13297,"date":"2017-02-10T01:43:53","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13297"},"modified":"2017-02-10T01:47:53","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T01:47:53","slug":"unbelievable-baby-born-pregnant-with-her-own-twins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=13297","title":{"rendered":"UNBELIEVABLE: Baby Born Pregnant with Her Own Twins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><code><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- www.deltanewsroom.com --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2163942495525027\" data-ad-slot=\"1411897411\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/code><\/p>\n<p>A baby born in Hong Kong was pregnant with her own siblings at the time of her birth, according to a new report of the infant\u2019s case.<\/p>\n<p>The baby\u2019s condition, known as fetus-in-fetu, is incredibly rare, occurring in only about 1 in every 500,000 births. It\u2019s not clear exactly why it happens.<br \/>\n\u201cWeird things happen early, early in the pregnancy that we just don\u2019t understand,\u201d said Dr. Draion Burch, an obstetrician and gynecologist in Pittsburgh, who goes by Dr. Drai.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alternativeadvert.com\/show.php?z=30&amp;pl=12345&amp;ad_type=59&amp;rl=180\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of those medical mysteries.\u201d<br \/>\nThe World Health Organization considers a tiny fetus found within an infant to be a kind of teratoma, or tumor, rather than a normally developing fetus.<\/p>\n<p>But the doctors who treated the baby girl wrote that rather than a teratoma, the tiny fetuses may instead be the remains of sibling twins that were absorbed during the pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missed in check-up<\/strong><br \/>\nThe newborn baby was referred to Dr. Yu Kai-man, an obstetrician and gynecologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, because the baby was suspected to have a tumor, according to the case report. The mother\u2019s prenatal ultrasound had revealed an unusual mass within the infant, but it was unclear to the doctors exactly what the mass was.<\/p>\n<p>During surgery, which was done when the girl was about 3 weeks old, the surgeons discovered two fetuses between her liver and her kidney.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>One fetus weighed 0.3 ounces (9.3 grams) and the other 0.5 ounces (14.2 grams) \u2014 corresponding to about 8 and 10 weeks\u2019 gestation, the case report said.<br \/>\nEach of the babies had an umbilical cord that linked to a placenta-like mass in the girl\u2019s belly.<\/p>\n<p>The baby girl was obviously too young to have conceived the fetuses herself. Instead, it\u2019s likely that the girl was once one of triplets, the researchers said.<\/p>\n<p>Then, for some mysterious reason, the two smaller fetuses were absorbed into the body of the remaining child.<br \/>\nThe fetuses would likely have still been alive and growing when they were absorbed into the surviving baby\u2019s body. Once there, however, their development couldn\u2019t proceed normally, Burch said.<br \/>\n\u201cThey need placental flow and all that other stuff to really grow,\u201d Burch told Live Science.<a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13298\" src=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baby-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"Baby\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baby-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baby.jpg 754w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Vanishing twins?<\/strong><br \/>\nFetus-in-fetu may, in fact, be similar to a surprisingly common phenomenon: vanishing twin syndrome, Burch said. In many twin pregnancies, one of the twins is completely absorbed and \u201cvanishes\u201d into the body of the other. 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The baby\u2019s condition, known as fetus-in-fetu, is incredibly rare, occurring in only about 1 in every 500,000 births. It\u2019s not clear exactly why it happens. \u201cWeird things happen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":13298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[3504,148],"class_list":["post-13297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-strange-world","tag-dr-draion-burch","tag-who"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Baby.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-3st","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13300,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13297\/revisions\/13300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}