eesh Wrote:
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>
http://www.weirdasianews.com/2009/05/02/weirder-we
> ird-chinese-stone-pregnancy/
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> Huang Yijun told the press she didn’t have the
> money to have her fetus removed after doctors told
> her it had died inside her in 1948.
>
> So she simply did nothing at all about it.
>
> Lithopedion is a very rare medical phenomenon,
> which occurs when a pregnancy fails and the fetus
> actually calcifies while still in the mother’s
> body.
>
> Medically speaking, what often happens is the
> implanted fetus gets to an advanced stage before
> it dies. Too large to be absorbed by the body, the
> remains of the child or its surrounding amniotic
> sac slowly calcify, turning to stone as a way to
> protect the woman’s body from infection from the
> decomposing tissue.
>
> If no complications occur, believe it or not, the
> mother can basically just go on with her life.
That is sooo fucked up.
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