foetus in foetu

Today is probably the most bizzare day in my life. First, I’ve got this pretty shocking news about the death of one of my family, and the other one is about a sever year old boy in Kazakhstan who ‘gave birth’ to his twin. How bizzare is that??

It is actually happened in 2003 (well I just found it out today, and I decided to share this amazing phenomenon with you), a boy name Alamjan one day found out that his belly is pretty much swollen. Then the teacher in his school got him into the hospital. The doctors scanned his belly, decided that it was a vast cyst and decided to operate on him. They’ve found a huge mass, and it was a difficult surgery because the mass was covered with blood vessels and connected to his arteries.

The surgeons was intrigued to find out what was in the mass, so they decided to cut it out. And (I don’t ever want to imagine this) they’ve found arms, hair, toenails, genital even a head with approximation of a face! A Vancouver-based paediatric pathologist, Dr. Virginia Baldwin, claimed that this condition is called foetus in foetu, a rare condition in which twins are conceived from one egg but the twinning is unequal, and at an early stage of development the incomplete twin is enveloped by the normal one, living off it as a parasite.

According to Dr. Baldwin to Times Online, “When twins are conceived there can be competition for resources and only one may survive,” she says. “Depending on the anatomy and physiology of the placenta shared by the twins, a situation may develop which favours one or the other. If there is an imbalance in the blood flow, you have a hazardous situation.”

Wow.. Anyway, the kid’s just told that he has eaten a bad fruit, some white lies the docs told him so he wouldn’t be depressed or psychologically injured.

Even so, this is completely bizzare for me..