Woman Delivers ‘Stone Baby’ After 60 Year Pregnancy
In a bizarre turn of events straight out of Mr. Ripley’s personal files, comes this true story of a 92-year-old woman who delivered a child (albeit not a live baby) she had been carrying for over half a century! (Long pregnancies are one thing, but THAT is ridiculous!)
Huang Yijun, aged 92, is from southern China and she recently made news after delivering a baby known as a lithopedion, aka ‘Stone Baby’.
Huang Yijun told the press she didn’t have the money to have her fetus removed after doctors told her it had died inside her in 1948.
So she simply did nothing at all about it.
Lithopedion is a very rare medical phenomenon, which occurs when a pregnancy fails and the fetus actually calcifies while still in the mother’s body.
Medically speaking, what often happens is the implanted fetus gets to an advanced stage before it dies. Too large to be absorbed by the body, the remains of the child or its surrounding amniotic sac slowly calcify, turning to stone as a way to protect the woman’s body from infection from the decomposing tissue.
If no complications occur, believe it or not, the mother can basically just go on with her life.
According to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, only 290 cases of lithopedions have ever been documented by medical literature.
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By MDeeDubroff on 02-05-2009
Comment by COUNT DUCK
May 2nd, 2009 at 5:41 pm
The condition was first described in a treatise by the physician Albucasis in the 10th century AD, but fewer than 300 cases have been noted in 400 years of medical literature. The earliest lithopedion is one found in an archaeological excavation, dated to 1100 BC.
Comment by karenkay
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:08 am
damn that is bizzare!
Comment by eLsa
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:44 am
this is a bit eww, but wow. o__O
Comment by Billy
May 3rd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
wow this is one of the strangest stories i have ever seen
Comment by | PersianClubz.com Best Online Club |
May 3rd, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Oh my god!
Comment by Jody
May 3rd, 2009 at 7:12 pm
How is she a stupid effing * Sarah? It was 1948 and she had no money to have the baby removed. Not everyone lives luxurious spoilt brat lives you know. I know you’re probably trying to be shocking but I fcking hate people like you.
Comment by paco
May 3rd, 2009 at 10:16 pm
thanx jody! that’s exactly what i had in mind!
Comment by Rallie X
May 4th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Way to go Sarah, reaffirming why the rest of the world hates stuck up white * like you, one blog at a time.
Comment by Sarah! (not that bitchy one)
May 4th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Wow. Seriously, we’re spoiled when it comes to things like this… Americans have Planned Parenthood, Canadians have free health care. I can see how someone wouldn’t understand why a woman would have just done nothing.
But still, wow.
Comment by patricia mc namara
May 4th, 2009 at 5:21 am
sarah…………. YOU are the stupid ffffffing Eurofemale. How dare you. You comment from a priviliged position BUT unfortunately an ignorent one.
Comment by Anthony James Barnett - author
May 4th, 2009 at 5:52 am
This is an incredible thing to happen. Unbelievably sad.
Comment by MDeeDubroff
May 4th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Thanks you all for your comments. I appreciate them and you are all entitled to your opinion, but could you pelease (some of you) refrain from using filthy language? It isn’t necessary to make your point and it only reflects badly on the user.
Comment by hjd
May 4th, 2009 at 3:49 pm
I saw this on tv. It was on “I didn’t know I was pregnant”
Comment by Love
May 5th, 2009 at 12:00 pm
Even beggar can deliver a baby……….so y cldnt she…………..
Comment by victor
May 5th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
walk a mile in someones shoes you foolish person, you have no clue as to what life was like back then these people are the most rugged and durable in the world. give her your empathy understanding you philistine
Comment by victor
May 5th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
And what is more this is not wild and wacky ,it is sad and tragic and an indication of a dark past when life was hard and morbid and needs no laughter or snide comments.
Comment by tawanda
May 6th, 2009 at 1:27 pm
victor is right. this story is very sad. Its a shame that todays society find humour in other peoples misfortunes. please grow up and stop being selfish for a change!
Comment by blow me
May 7th, 2009 at 12:39 am
suck my dick
Comment by Meowlie
May 7th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
How about you go to hell – it is sick to mock people who are unfortunate. Go blow yourself, douche.
Comment by Sabrina
May 8th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Wierd
Comment by Rokcet Scientist
May 8th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
"only 290 cases of lithopedions have ever been documented". In humans maybe! In other mammals it's not so rare: 2 months ago a lithopedion was surgically removed from an elephant's womb, where it had been sitting for nearly 2 years after the calf ought to have been born.
Comment by jasmine
May 15th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
here goes: yes it is!!! gaaa~ XO
Comment by alicelockhart
May 25th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
wow… thats sad..
Comment by Heather
May 27th, 2009 at 1:09 am
Canadian health care is not free. We pay for it, taxes and through employers donate. It's universal, not free
Comment by NHampshire
May 28th, 2009 at 10:46 pm
I am wondering how in heck she could have 'passed' this through the birth canal without pain at this age?
Comment by floncita
July 7th, 2009 at 7:14 am
the human body is just amazing
Comment by Samuel Chilenje
July 15th, 2009 at 9:56 am
It has also happened here in Malawi. Agnes Msolo a 20 years old of Mulanje District has delivered her Lithopedion just last week at Mulanje District Hospital. This is her second stone baby.
Comment by Brittney
August 24th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
That is very sad…
Comment by two-faced joel
September 2nd, 2009 at 3:43 pm
stone baby!
Comment by Golf Blog
September 6th, 2009 at 4:43 am
I saw a story (maybe this ladys) on TLC about this. Pregnant for 60 years.. or something like that. Not sure what it was called, but a similar story indeed. I feel bad that she didn't have the means to have it removed.. should have come to America — aliens get free healthcare here.
Comment by steven
September 7th, 2009 at 7:42 am
Are you kidding! Can we leave race out of this! Is that all ur focused on shows how mature you really are. White ppl aren’t the only culture to be spoiled I’m white and poor I don’t support sara’s beleifs but that is offensive grow up see past race its 2009. What year are you living in?
Comment by jef
September 7th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
People need free health care all around the world. Including the u s of a. Obama what are you doing about it!!??
Comment by Lo in ND
September 8th, 2009 at 2:30 am
That is so sad, that poor lady must have been miserable – I hope she is ok now, and maybe passing it will be good for her body – I just can't imagine this happening in this day and age no one seen it in a xray or ultra sound – seems like the elderly all of the world have poor health care.
Comment by avisioncame
September 25th, 2009 at 1:53 am
just barfed in my mouth a little
Comment by jin
October 22nd, 2009 at 1:47 am
i think most of you are underaged here, first of all you should read first.
1. the doctor said that the baby died inside her.
2. she didnt had the money to remove the baby.
and to golf blog. go to america? she dont even have enough money to remove a fetus, how the heck can she go to america. and PLUS its not free. you have to pay for health care. but i guess you dont know that cause youre still living with your parents o.O
Comment by Jesse
October 28th, 2009 at 5:39 am
Disgusting! I cannot read on when I saw the “stone baby”.
Comment by Service Apartments
October 29th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Really difficult to believe but it s a wow stuff.
Comment by brigitte
October 30th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
in a way, some people do have "free" or perhaps a "socialized" form of healthcare in the united states. it's called the emergency room. this is through a process known as COST SHIFTING. Ever wonder why it costs $100 for an ace wrap at the emergency room? you cannot be refused emergency medical assistance on the grounds of inability to pay. So, hospitals end up millions of dollars in the hole. To compensate for this, they change insurance companies extra, and this is passed onto premium payers. So, in a way it's free for some, and others are left to pick up the bill.
anyway, i totall agree, that was a ridiculous statement, "go to america"? …… pshhh
that is really sad to think about, just how psychologically draining that would be, at least initially, to accept the death of the child you would never get to hold, to still have them physically so close, but never be able to enjoy sharing life with them.