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Rare birth in Israel: A baby is born with a fetus in her womb

A mother who came to the maternity ward at Assuta Hospital in Ashdod gave birth to a healthy baby, and then the doctors found a fetus in her womb that had not developed, maybe even two.

The rare case occurs once every half a million births and does not endanger the baby

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Tuesday, 27 July 2021, 12:19 Updated: 13:02

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About ten days ago, a midwife arrived at Assuta Hospital in Ashdod carrying a baby in her womb.

On manual examination and ultrasound, the doctors felt that the baby's abdomen was unusually large.

Only after she was born in a natural birth did they discover the reason for this - inside the girl's womb was a fetus absorbed in her body, possibly even two.

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"We are talking about a baby who was born and diagnosed with a larger-than-usual abdomen - the reviews did not show any special findings, but at the entrance to the maternity ward they noticed that there was something in her abdomen and she was larger than usual," says Dr. Omar Globus, director of the Assuta Department We discovered that there was something in the abdominal cavity and after clarification, photography and ultrasound we appeared to find that it was a fetus.

"From there, the way was to the operating room - she was operated on and the fetus was removed, we are still checking to see if there were even two fetuses," he says. The girl underwent eight days of recovery after the operation and was released healthy to her home.

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"There have been cases like this in Israel but it is a very rare case - one in half a million births - and there have been several hundred cases worldwide. Most of the doctors I know have not encountered this in reality," says Dr. Globus, who along with Dr. Wadim Kafler, director of pediatric surgery , Prof. Ben Tragin, Deputy Director of the International School of Medicine and Specialist in Pediatric Imaging and Dr. Ibrahim Said, Director of the Pediatric Anesthesia Unit - performed the surgery to remove the fetus from the baby's abdomen.

Incomprehensible.

Photo of the baby's lining (Photo: Assuta Ashdod spokeswoman)

There may have been two embryos there (Photo: Assuta Ashdod spokeswoman)

"It's important to make clear that this is not a full fetus, and that its development stopped in the middle. It goes through a partial developmental stage. That means we identified organs like long bones of limbs and identified a heart. But it does not look like an imaginary fetus. We think there was more than one there and we are still checking it out, "adds Dr. Globus."

And what about the further development of the infant in the future? The baby is supposed to be a healthy girl. Some kind of health problem later on. "

It should be noted that the mother of the baby, who is her fourth child, thought all along that she had twins, even though the scans showed one girl.

She said that "something felt strange to her during her pregnancy."

Why does a "parasitic fetus" develop?

The medical condition that caused this abnormal development is called a parasitic fetus, or fetus within a fetus.

Because this is such a rare case, doctors do not have enough information to understand why it really occurs, and the World Health Organization defines it as a type of tumor (tartoma).

A parasitic pregnancy is not really a pregnancy as we know it.

Unlike a pregnancy in which an egg and sperm form a fetus that grows in the womb, this is actually the remnant of a twin fetus that did not develop properly and its body is absorbed into the body of the other, healthy twin.

This is a phenomenon sometimes referred to as "disappearing twin syndrome" and is more common in pregnancies performed through in vitro fertilization (IVF), although the phenomenon can also occur in natural pregnancies.

The "dead" twin is absorbed by the body of the living fetus or the mother's body.

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