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This phenomenon is called Lithopedion, which means "stone baby". It occurs after an abnormal pregnancy and death of the fetus, when for some reason it is retained by the mother's body. The fetus is too big to be reabsorbed, so it gets calcified by the mother's body, to shield her from the dead tissue. This is extremely rare.
HolliBerri
Don’t blink.
Chubbyinsweats
This would make Mike Pence happy that she kept her baby
Embronyx
Well that's terrifying.
MistressLyda
I have seen this in a cat once. I still regret that I did not take pictures of it.
Grunwald
SoundKraftS2
Nothing to see here
IsmokedAweedOnce
Movingchild
StevenFarmer
https://media.giphy.com/media/k2HNtyMhVu5yM/giphy.gif
YouSufferWithCognitiveDissonance
yonotoco
Rock fetus in your uterus or teeth in your knee? Cant dicide
boysonhangers
Did she... did she not know it was there? Or that something was off? In her belly? Confusion
Kyuukichi
30 fucking year old??!
FiftyShadesOfCauliflower
I've long been of the opinion that this whole biological reproduction thing is utterly weird & unpredictable & we should just stop doing it.
trumpypumpyinyourrumpy
I saw this before with another woman. I think it was in India. The stone baby was very big, so was her stomach. They removed it
uitSCHOT
They removed her stomach?
floyd007
Nah, they removed her.
RogueFlamingo
SeaBass88
redghost999
That’s spot on. I love this reaction
PocketFullOfMumbles
Charcharm
Imagine having a baby bump for 43 years.
Charcharm
Shit, I'm dumb. For 30 years, obviously.
PsychedelicButterfly
Preparing for a finance exam right now & it's got my head spinning so hard I forgot how to do decimals for a minute. Pls don't feel too bad!
Charcharm
Thanks, I won't. I am not big in math and what not, props to you for being smart and good luck at your exam!
Samzwerg
How sad :( can you image how shocked the woman must have been learning about it? The embryo died twice for her.
Truntelunte
Absolutely heartbreaking :(
beingadickcumberbatch
Is, is that how Dwyane Johnson was born?
MadCDeeJay
"This makes me rock hard" Babys First words.
Benny777
knispler
Thats why he looked like a grown man at the age of 12...
YurgenGrimwood
"See? I told you I wasn't fat."
DavosTheOnionKnight
Is it calcified all the way through or can we break it open and unleash the most horrific stench imaginable?
DoubleNubbin
I'd guess even if it was squishy on the inside it wouldn't smell much after 30 years. Might be wrong though.
swanglemydangle
It's like an M&M
sumowoman
Jesus...
HonourableMane
owlest
wheres this from?
dasAchteck
looks like Burn After Reading
dasAchteck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPvOA2UCsOY
punkylunkpx
"It is extremely rare" i've got a few other words i might say first
ClemFandangoAskingCanYouHearMe
NasaFakedTheMoon
Oh man this is my favor comic of all time I have it saved everywhere it was even my background for a while lol
TheBuffSeagull
Pretty sure you are into vore.
NatsukiIsMyWaifu
What the fuck
Madchair
good god
flacoloco
first thing that I started thinking about
TheManInTheWall
Thanks, I hate it
DragonFromAFewDoorsOver
"Every Great One loses its child, and then yearns for a surrogate, and Oedon, the formless Great One, is no different."
Softcreamybeige
[Makes contact]
ErnieDevlin42
Came to comments just to find this. +1 fellow hunter
anyway188136
MistressLyda
I don't. Enlighten me?
Gabuur
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WallabyShanks
Bloodborne reference, best game
Softcreamybeige
Making contact with eldritch wisdom is a blessing, for even if it drives one mad, it allows one to serve a grander purpose, for posterity.
Blank666
That’s gross but also really cool
rexmundi381931415
redghost999
If only your username was Blinky666
Zzzz000
Someone should 3D print it.
DonCollectoria
Why!?
Poobydooby
She already did
XTrauXs
Son of a
TheDudeOrHisDudeness
Right? It's fascinating that the body can recover from such extreme event by covering the fetus with bone-like tissue.
BigRedMonkeyButts
bonitis
JimKongElectricEel
If only the body could do this same thing to cancer
ChaosandChaos
It's called bone cancer.
BigRedMonkeyButts
bonitis?
BigRedMonkeyButts
bonitis
MySinIsPride
Is it going to be okay?
FranticCosmonaut
Nothing a booster shot can't fix
pawningpanda
Yeah. Get'em some essential oils and they'll be fine.
voguemouse
The vag-jade egg works wonders. Only €799! No decimal point is correct!
justfewmoredays
Yeah it's fine
NihilisticAcorn
Not dead at all either
metalfoto
Hes waiting
ChrisCopp
Dead baby jokes....classy
J0joTheIdiotCircusBoy
Give the baby a break. You don't know if its jokes are going to be any good or not yet.
IllegalDuckling
He'll walk it off
Grugmi
No, they didn't vaccinate .
solmazer
Thoughts and prayers
capsaicinheat
Once its turned off and on again maybe
Isaypoopythingsbecausemostofyouannoyme
The baby is dead as fuck.
andydotcom
It’s going through some hard times but I think it’ll pull through
LanceCorporalBadger
MyDarlingFeet
He's being stone faced right now.
Dyslexicbirch
Oh god finding out that baby you lost was there all along thats double heartbreak
Pauthelemonpai
Some cases I've read about happen in rural areas where people don't see doctors, they have this idea of "if it kills me, it kills me"
Updoodilydoo
OTOH, they had to feel amazing after getting it removed
jimmyhowlett
Assuming they could safely remove it
WhiteGlas
Well, i don't see why not. They might have to break it in pieces but I don't see how this would be different from say an appendectomy.
superbadonkey
It's been 30 years, she must be over it by now?
FeistyPumpkinPie
How? She never had the baby. There was nothing for her to grieve. It’s like it was all in her mind, until this proved otherwise.
RidingDragonsWithoutALicense
Heads up. You never get “over”miscarrying. You just learn to accept the pain.
qiirbinu
Geez what must it be like for women who have had abortions, I know it’s not PC to say but it’s like a miscarriage you initiated
HadMeSomeChickens
It's the hardest thing I've been through. It's even harder when people ask if I have kids. "No." And I always want to add, "but I did..."
Gaiashining
Saw an interview of a couple celebrating 68 years married and when he talked about their first baby miscarriage he cried like it happened <
Gaiashining
> the day before. 63 years later and it still hurt.
12Centuries
found the youngling who has yet to suffer real grief!
PuppyDontCare
This is why I like Imgur. It's full of adults. Or adult thinking..... sometimes.
Corrodias
But just imagine, it's basically bone, now. You could take it out and make a nice statuette out of it. What a conversation piece!
msdudebro
Ew. Haha
DarnYouToHeck
Disgusting, I love it +1
MistressLyda
Yeah... I wonder if she knew.
leedi
i saw an interview of her, she knew. Remote area, delivery went bad but baby never extracted... she went on knowing her dead baby was inside
ukalliq
That fetus isn't close to full term. Look at the pelvic cavity. A full-term fetus would just *barely* fit through that hole.
leedi
it shrinks when calsified
MistressLyda
Crikes. That sounds utterly horrible.
Totallyscrewedinaustin
Sauce?
SometimesIpostfood
It was on Discovery or something. I remember watching it.
HerrBisch
Surely she'd have to have known? It looks pretty big...
PuppyDontCare
Unless she's overweight. Like women on that show "I didn't know I was pregnant"
kadaeux
I knew a lady who didn't know she was pregnant. She was athletically thin, came over and asked for a lift to the hospital due to severe
kadaeux
cramps, found out at the hospital she was in labour, nobody knew or even suspected.
HerrBisch
OMG true, I know somebody who went to hospital thinking she had appendicitis and came home with a son.
ruferto
jesus, how big was she?
HerrBisch
I mean big, but I've seen bigger people.
Mariel141
You don't have to be that big. I'm not a big person but when I got pregnant, I was a good five months along before it actually started to...
keyholes
As a fat woman, that is terrifying.
PJVeddersGirl
Me three!! Christ I could have triplets in there and not know
upvotehypnotoad
+1 for not sugar-coating it. Also "Did someone say 'sugar-coated'?!"
namAehT
This usually happens when the embryo develops outside the uterus, assuming it doesn't kill the woman first.
ButterfaceTaintClown
I believe its called an ectoplasmic pregnancy. Because of the baby ghost.
TheInternetNeedsMoreCats
That old lady is a badass.
IDidntDoIt
Yeah I was gonna say that looks a little off to the side. Maybe a fallopian tube pregnancy. Ectopic
Totallyscrewedinaustin
If it was in the tube, the tube would have ruptured a few weeks into pregnancy
shakhaza
Yea my girlfriend and I unfortunately experienced an ectopic pregnancy. thankfully we caught it in time to save her but not our child.
APackOfExcitedGingers
Same here, last year. But also, aren't ectopics always non-viable?
ImJustHereForTheGifWar
With heavy intervention from modern medicine, and assuming that the woman doesn't die from internal bleeding, it can be viable. It's RARE
namAehT
Depends on what the embryo attaches to, but in most cases when it is discovered it is removed. Sometimes it goes undiscovered until 1/2
namAehT
really late in the pregnancy, in which case an early cesarian usually happens.
Janedoe783
Glad you caught it on time. Hope you'll get pregnant soon again if not already :)
WGG25
i'm pretty sure he won't get pregnant..
Akubarix
Maybe if you give him a chance!
RackhamTheRed
Mate, YOU didn't experience it.And since I once had a gf with a similar history... "saving" the embryo was never an option. nada. impossible
millanbel
It's his child as well and I hope he supported her emotionally and physically as much as he could.
shakhaza
Thank you
MrGrundy
Zoidenburg
Wow, what a scum human being you are. Imagine talking shit about someone losing their child, get fucked cunt they BOTH experienced the loss.
Jutubya
Agreed, I had an ectopic pregnancy. My husband was in the hospital but HE did not almost bleed to death nor did he have excruciating pain
mygloba101
How did you rate his pain?
whyisallthecheesegone
Yup, and you didn’t almost lose your spouse or feel completely powerless. Both people can have feelings, nobody gets a monopoly here.
whyisallthecheesegone
Well that’s 1 way to lose your fake internet points.
WorkerLurker
Yes. He did, just not physically. This is like saying a father is less of a parent than a mother.
RackhamTheRed
I never said "less of a parent". But I've heard stuff like "couldn't save our child" from people that wanted to sacrifice the mother in the
RackhamTheRed
ill assumption to be able to "save the child"
shakhaza
Thankyou. Of course I couldn't fathom the feelings she went through but I lost a child too.
mygloba101
I've never understood how people can be like that. I understand that I have the belly so baby grows there but guys are every bit part of the
MustyMustelidae
What a normal and not at all completely sociopathic person you are!
RackhamTheRed
Ok, I'll assume you didn't comprehend what I wrote. So I'll reduce it to the example in place: She had an EP and went to the hosp. with her
RackhamTheRed
halfwit ex bf. They explaind to them "the thing has to go. now". That moron tried to convince her & them to let it be, no matter how often
Samzwerg
Can it develop this far out of the uterus? That is amazing
tg2222222
There's cases of it developing latched to the abdominal wall. Don't think they make it to term though.
thenoisegeorgemichaelmakeswhenannbreaksupwithhim
there is a case in england where the baby attached to the mothers outer colon wall and they both miraculously survived
RackhamTheRed
what a shitty way to come into this world
BarrackHusseinIslamabama
It's called ectopic pregnancy and is a quite dangerous complication
RackhamTheRed
"quite"... unless you treat it I'd say "maximum"
BlunderbussVigilante
I dunno, "spending 30+ years with a calcified fetus inside of you" kinda tops it imo.
RackhamTheRed
Nah, only makes you harder
AntiProtonBoy
Yeah in the Fallopian tubes, sometimes even in the ovaries!
Wherethefackaretheirchins
I had an ectopic (fallopian tube) pregnancy that ruptured. I nearly died. Not fun times.
nellietta
Had that happen to me, in the tubes. Luckily they found it in time and cut it out before it ruptured
jukicat8512
But only a few weeks. Then the tubes rupture. Those big stone babys could not be formed in the tubes bc they dont stretch like a womb.
HodgeNPodge
Yeah that was gonna be my next question. How could an egg travel this far OUT of the uterus, tubes and ovaries for this to be possible?
imaginaryPeppers
What but where does the placenta get the nutritients? Why isn't the fetus removed? Pregnancies like that cause serious pain from the start.
nicoleoftheeast
The ovaries are actually not quite connected to the tubes. It's possible for an egg to slip out
HodgeNPodge
Not to mention while the zygote is still viable? ...I see why it's extremely rare...
ravnicrasol
Human babies are quite aggressive in their drive to survive, it's kinda scary how it works once you look into the specifics.
PyroMiniYak
So a baby is basically a xenomorph?
ILikePugandFrenchiePictures
That's why we need abortion. Get them before they get us.
owlsinacity
This is why one of my friends will never have children.
rubyredxx
This reason? THIS specific reason??
owlsinacity
Well, the fact that she's terrified of the concept of something growing in her body and the fact that she can't afford one right now...
zykelator
As are any parasites.
LostAndSeeking
That's what I named my kid before I found out the gender. Old people get mad at the kinda humor.
zykelator
so triggered, call them theybyes
Treblaine
So...
RackhamTheRed
4 weeks in 3 pictures
BearlyHooman
Pr3ach3r
Too soon man ...
GlitterInTheDarkNearTheTannhauserGate
Higure
Speaing of aggressive: I heard once that PMS is a thing because the uterus has to be crazy prepared. Prepared for what, you ask? Well, 1/2
darkladyvanstar
So...my pms is trying to prevent the fetus from trying to be alone?
puppiesarethebestpeople
It's trying to prevent only a single successful pregnancy and ensure multiple pregnancy's. So sperm want the uterus to use up all the 1
rubyredxx
I don't understand either.
Higure
a human fetus apparently will do all it can to make sure it's an only child. 2/2
RackhamTheRed
the REAL bad PMS usually isn't "uterus", but pieces of endometrium that grow outside the uterus, a bit like cancer, thou less aggressive