Fetus-in-fetu
Very weird news item on MSNBC (found via Slog). A baby girl in Pakistan was born “pregnant” with twins:
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Surgeons operated on a 2-month-old Pakistani girl Tuesday to remove two fetuses that had grown inside her while she was still in her mother’s womb, a doctor said.
The infant, who was identified only as Nazia, was in critical condition following the two-hour operation at The Children’s Hospital at Pakistan Institute of Medical Science in the capital, Islamabad, said Zaheer Abbasi, head of pediatric surgery at the hospital.
Abbasi, the chief doctor who led the operation, said the case was the first he was aware of in Pakistan of fetus-in-fetu, where a fetus has grown inside another in the womb.
“It is extremely rare to have two fetuses being discovered inside another,” Abbasi told The Associated Press, adding that he did not know what caused the medical abnormality. “Basically, it’s a case of triplets, but two of the siblings grew in the other.”
Find out about so-called parasitic twins on Wikipedia, and check out this teenage boy in Bangladesh last year who was complaining about stomach pains, and had a fetus removed from him by doctors.

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March 31st, 2006 at 2:01 pm
I saw this the other night/morning on the CNN ticker. I was up because I couldn’t sleep, and I seriously thought I had imagined it.
March 31st, 2006 at 7:21 pm
I actually saw the special on the Bengladesh boy on the Discovery Health channel months ago. It was pretty freaky, the fetus was wrapped in hair and had teeth. Pretty freakin crazy!
March 31st, 2006 at 10:54 pm
So is the mother (the original one) now a grandmother?
April 3rd, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Wow dat some crazy shit u right is the mom a grandma good point