Delhi: Doctors successfully deliver baby grown inside abdominal cavity instead of uterus
What made the situation complex was that the condition was not detected during the six ultrasounds the woman underwent during her pregnancy.;
New Delhi: In a rare occurrence, doctors at a private facility here delivered a baby girl who had grown inside the abdominal cavity instead of uterus.
In most pregnancies, a fertilised egg grows inside the uterus with the placenta, which provides nutrients and oxygen to the growing baby, attached to the uterus wall, but in this case it was attached to the bowel.
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"In cases where the fertilised egg grows inside the abdominal cavity, it does not survive beyond four or five months, but in this case, it was a full-term pregnancy and the baby was delivered through a caesarean surgery performed on Monday morning. The baby's weight was 2.65 kg," Anjali Chaudhary, obstetrics and gynaecology, Aarogya Hospital said.
What made the situation complex was that the condition was not detected during the six ultrasounds the woman underwent during her pregnancy.
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