A baby girl in India was born with eight embryos in her belly, doctors said. The baby girl was born on October 10 at a private hospital in Ramgarh district, Jharkhand state, India. However, upon returning home, the parents found that the baby had an unusually swollen tummy and decided to take him back to the hospital. Mom and Dad’s concern was that the little girl might have a tumor.
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He was born with eight embryos in his womb, according to the discovery
Doctors transferred the girl to the Rani Children Hospital & Research Center in the city of Ranchi after a CT scan confirmed suspicion of a tumor.
However, this was not the case, in reality the child had a fetus within a fetus (FIF). It is a rare condition in which one or more malformed vertebrate fetuses are trapped within the sibling’s body. Up to eight undeveloped embryos were found in the girl’s stomach. This is believed to be the highest number ever found in a newborn.
Baby girl in India is born with eight EMBRYOS inside her https://t.co/IF4GqeM2bI
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The operation
dr Mohammed Imran confirmed that the operation was successfully completed in about an hour and a half. The girl is currently recovering and is said to be in good condition.
Such cases are considered extremely rare, occurring in less than 1 in 1 million births. Only 200 cases of the extraordinarily rare defect have been recorded, the Chron reports. Only two or three embryos have been removed from the newborn in previous cases, and never eight, according to local media. The fetus within the fetus is caused by the incomplete separation of the twins, who do not grow and instead become an internal part of the healthy twin.