Extremely Rare Image Shows Unborn Baby's Feet Growing Outside Uterus

Just looking at this image might give the impression that this woman’s baby literally kicked its feet right out of her uterus. But moms-to-be with kicky babies can rest easy ― the MRI image showcases an extremely rare condition that was not caused by a baby’s kick. The 33-year-old woman had developed a 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) tear in the wall of her uterus, and through the tear, part of the amniotic sac measuring 7.5 by 4.7 by 3.5 inches (19  by 12 by 9 cm) popped out, according to a brief report of her case. The amniotic sac is the fluid-filled membrane found in the uterus that contains the growing and developing fetus.  But the woman had no symptoms that any of this was going on. She didn’t learn of her condition until she came in for a routine ultrasound when she was 22-weeks pregnant, according to the report, published Dec. 21 in The New England Journal of Medicine. Dr. Pierre-Emmanuel Bouet, an OB/GYN at the Angers University Hospital in France and the lead author of the report, said he had never seen a case like this before. [Here’s a Giant List of the Strangest Medical Cases We’ve Covered] Indeed, the condition is “extremely rare,” Bouet told Live Science. There have only been 26 cases reported in the literature, he added. This was the woman’s sixth pregnancy, the doctors wrote in the report. In all of her five previous pregnancies, the woman delivered the babies via Caesarean section (C-section), they w...
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