In what will come across as a most shocking case of abnormal childbirths in recent times, a boy has been born pregnant with another baby inside him.
The baby was born with another fetus inside him
A young woman recently gave birth to premature twin boys in Xi'an, northwestern China's Shanxi province.
However, but to everyone’s surprise, there was a third baby in the belly of one of the twins.
According to China.org.cn, doctors checked a mass in the boy's lower abdomen. It was about 6 to 7 centimeters in diameter, and an operation was required to remove it.
The operation on a 2-week-old, 2-kilo baby was a severe test both for the boy and the doctors. After four hours, the mass was successfully removed.
The mass looked like a rare parasitic fetus; bones and fingernails were discovered within it after doctors cut it open, said Gao Ya, a professor and Vice-Dean of the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University
The odds of this fetus-in-fetus condition are only one in 500,000 worldwide.
The twin that hosted the fetus has been slowly restored to health after the surgery.