Paris: A woman who is getting treatment for abdominal pain shockingly discovers that she is 23 weeks pregnant with a baby.
The 37-year-old in France complained of worsening bloating and she sought help ten days after developing severe abdominal pain.
The case study published in the New England Journal of Medicine said she was carrying ‘normally formed’ fetus inside her abdominal cavity lying between the stomach and the bowel.
The doctors explained the woman was experiencing ectopic pregnancy.
It occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus, rather than in the abdominal cavity.
The condition mostly lead to baby’s death but doctors in France pulls of the miracle.
The baby takes birth at 29 weeks and mother and the newborn left the hospital after three months.
The doctors’ efforts were commendable considering the risk of ectopic pregnancies causing internal bleeding, tube rupture or shock.
The New York Post reported that chances of babies dying in such conditions as high 90 per cent.
Those who survive may have once in five chance of birth defects or brain damage.
In order to ward of this situation, the doctors they waited until 29 weeks gestation to give the baby a chance of survival.
This is not the first case of embryo growing in odd places with a doctor reporting the incident of fetus growing in woman’s liver.
Dr Michael Narvey, of the Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, reportedly said ‘We see these sometimes in the abdomen but never in the liver. This is a first for me.’