woman gives birth to baby... 60 years later

[bomber_ten]

Huang Yijun, aged 92, is from southern China and she recently made news after delivering a baby known as a lithopedion

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.

According to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, only 290 cases of lithopedions have ever been documented by medical literature.

-weirdasiannews-

[finalxnoodles]

i just google'd the word lithopedion and i was felt disgusted and amazed at the same time
i had never heard of this just until now...
its awesome

[zesphiete]

Wow....This is my first time hear terms called as Stone Baby. It sounds like good news to hear since it doesn’t affect the women body.

[VanityDoll]

I thought that was sad and beautiful at the same time. I didn't know such things happened..

[bomber_ten]

haha wow a fireman?? you mean firewoman?? kinda hard for a dude to get pregnant in the first place..

[ultramanandrew]

i wonder what made this lady suddenly get it removed after so long. she wasnt't infected, so was the dead baby smell reeking from her, or was it that she got some how screwed up by this--- like what the hell?! secondly, why are these weird stories always from china? i wonder a baby stone looks like after 60 years... though if i could, i wouldn't want to see it.

[natcaasi]

The human body has ever surprised me with its ability to take care for itself ... calcifying the amniotic sac to separate the dead fetus ... scabs on wounds even clotting of the blood ... great examples of bodliy defensive mechanism ... that said the human body is still very mortal ... hopefully in 100 or a few hundred years we would be able to achieve just a fraction of the regeneration that Wolverine is capable of ...

[Lynethia]

i wonder what made this lady suddenly get it removed after so long. she wasnt't infected, so was the dead baby smell reeking from her, or was it that she got some how screwed up by this--- like what the hell?! secondly, why are these weird stories always from china? i wonder a baby stone looks like after 60 years... though if i could, i wouldn't want to see it.

She was having stomach pains from it.
Pregnant 92-Year-Old Woman - The Well-Timed Period

[k-chan]

It's the first time I heard about this. Really didn't know that the human body can protect itself *(I thought when the baby dies, well basically need to remove in order not to die-->that was my logic). It's amazing but I guess it must have been really painful!