@dr.chad.md: A lithopedion, or “stone baby,” is an extremely rare phenomenon that occurs when a pregnancy develops outside the uterus (usually in the abdomen), the fetus dies, and is too large for the body to reabsorb. To protect itself from infection, the body gradually deposits calcium around the fetal tissue, essentially turning it into a “stone.” 📌 Fewer than 400 cases have been documented in medical literature. 📌 Some lithopedions have remained undetected for decades before being discovered incidentally on imaging or during surgery. 📌 Today, advances in prenatal care and imaging make this condition exceptionally rare. Medicine never ceases to amaze. Cases like this highlight the body’s remarkable ability to adapt in extraordinary circumstances. #Lithopedion #StoneBaby #Medicine #MedicalFacts #HumanBody

only petty :

there's a Republican out there demanding she gives birth to it 🙄

Heavenly Home319 :

I carried my own twin for 16 years. Sepsis almost took me out 😇 .

NxioT :

Open your mind

SmellieNellie :

she must be forced to give birth to it because Jesus

Rat :

I would keep it honestly, in some sort of specimen jar because if I had a baby with me for years I wouldn’t wanna throw it in the trash to someone to pick it apart.

C Dubs :

Strangely clean x rays for 80yo lol

Random4686 :

So the body causes an abortion itself?!??!!

Elsa :

And with abortion laws not allowing to remove unviable fetuses, this will happen more often

At peace :

It’s a human pearl 😳

Modern Witch Digital Spellbook :

Hi. I hate this. Thanks.

here we go :

Still shouldn’t be able to abort in the 120th trimester

Oliver Twist :

sometimes I think learning new things is probably not the best for my brain 😂

Alexa Grbic :

As someone who’s had an eptopic pregnancy and it almost killed me by bursting my falopian tube (tube, ovary and baby removed) this is insane.

Earl Baer :

In some states it's illegal to remove this.

AAC_Autistic :

Welp that's nightmare fuel

_garen__ :

@Abigail P (Girl With The List)

boba :

trump would send her to prison

Matt Wright Author :

user104661934 :

Where’s the woman with the list

Kasumei :

the red states trying to make this equal murder

Erin Main :

New hypochondriac fear unlocked 😥

Boadicea :

This was a Call The Midwife episode 🥰

🫥 :

Medical question: If the mothers body is encasing the fetus in calcium because it's too large to reabsorb, would this cause the mother to be low in free calcium? We know the importance of calcium in bones and cardiac muscle function. I'm wondering if this effects these at all.

Hanku_Brat :

This is Ai image

MCAT Brian :

How can the woman survive this? wouldn’t it rupture her fallopian tube?