"Pregnant for 46 Years"

Since I'm a nerd I watch Discovery Health, TLC and other channels like that on a somewhat regular basis and I found this program the other night on TLC called "Pregnant for 46 Years." Now the idea of that being possible made me cringe since I find pregnancy more weird than beatiful and so I had to see what it was about.

The show was about atopic pregnancies, which I learned is when an egg is fertilized outside of the uterus -- usually in a filopian tube. So there was this woman from Morroco, I think, who forty-six years ago was pregnant with an atopic pregnancy but she fled the hospitial after witnessing another mother die. Then at 76 (46 years later) she begins to have pain in her abdomen and the doctors perform a scan revealing this calcified baby still inside of her.

This particularly stuck out to me because there was an episode of LOCI, where a woman had a calcified baby inside of her, which I thought was pretty odd and never imagined it happening in real life. But apprently it can and they do actually call them stone babies because once they surgically remove the baby from the mother it's literarly hard as stone from the mother's body protecting itself from a foriegn body. It's also a very dangerous procedure for the mother to have the baby removed because it becomes fussed with the mother's organs.

Some of the imagery they used in the documentery were similar to those used in the episode. For example, the doctors in the documentery said, "remove the baby from it's tomb" and the woman in the episode refers to herself as a coffin.

It was pretty interesting and I mean talk about ripped from the headlines...