Pregnant for 46 YEARS!

[HugsForEeyore]

I think (I watched this a few weeks ago) the pregancy was etopic (implanted outside the womb). Usually etopic pregnancies need urgent surgery as the baby almost always dies early in the pregnancy, and the mother is in grave danger (though there have been some cases where the baby is born healthy but the pregnancy needed lots of medical intervention to make that happen). So when the lady went into labor, the baby could not be delivered, since it was not in the womb. Amazingly, the labor process did not kill the women. After much labor, the baby was not coming (and she was scared of surgery after seeing another woman die in childbirth), but then the labor pains stopped. The woman went home and believed the baby was "sleeping". Somehow, this process did not kill the woman, but the baby died inside of her. (Sorry if this is so hard to explain!)

Over the years, the woman's body calcified the baby, and the woman carried the baby for 46 years like that.

Hard to believe she survived all that, but she did. She adopted children and now they have children, so she did get the family she wanted.

 

[lbgraves]

That just doesn't make sense. I know that my sister gave birth to her son then went into toxic shock because there was a twin that died early in the pregnancy that they didn't know about. A month later she was rushed to the hospital bleeding to death because they hadn't gotten everything out. How this woman has walked around for this long with no problem is incredible!

 

[arkansas mom]

I am totally surprised that the dead fetus did not lead to decomposition, infection, and death of th mom.

it didn't decompose because of the calcificaton. in a sense, it was preserved. the rock hard layers of calcification acted as a barrier against infection.

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

Wow. And I was complaining about having to be pregnant for 9 months.

 

[lucyanna girl]

Ouuuuuchhhhhh!

 

[Disney1fan2002]

Can I ask what her belly looked like? I mean, I was HUGE at 7 months pregnant.... I don't know if I would want to carry around a belly like that for 46 years. It would of "reminded" me of the baby inside.

Also, 7 month old fetus' have BONES. How does a body just calcify something like that? Why didn't her body expel it?