A Lithopedion is better known as a stone
baby, is actually a calcified mass, which used to be a live foetus.
Although this condition is extremely rare and odd, it does happen. In
1955 a 26 year old woman named Zahra Aboutalib was rushed to the
hospital to deliver her baby.
Sadly, after an excruciating 48 hour
labor, she still could not deliver the baby, hence the doctors decided
that she should to undergo a caesarean section. The thought of dieing in
child labor terrified the woman and urged her to flee the hospital and
go back to the comfort of her home.
After doing so, she gave birth nearly 50
years later to a mummy baby. How is that possible? Take a look at the
pictures and read the story about ancient beliefs of “sleeping babies”
Below you can see pictures of Zahra Aboutalib, the amazing mother who gave birth to a mummy
After a few days of staying inside and
the pains disappeared. In modern days, everyone would know that under no
circumstance this could be normal, or possible, but an old Moroccan
myth says that a baby can go asleep in the mother’s womb due to black or
white magic and be can be born after the normal term alive and well.
That wasn’t the case of Zahra, who went
into labor pains 47 years later. Her son was concerned about his
mother’s condition, and decided to take her to a specialist in order to
see where the pains were coming from.
Professor Taibi Ouazzani from Rabat, who
suspected that the abnormal belly is in fact a massive ovarian tumor.
After several investigations, the X-rays proved the existence of a
calcified mass in Zahra’s womb. The woman was then rushed once again to
the hospital to finally deliver her “47-year-old-baby”.
The doctors took out a calcified mass
which bared a remarkably resemblance to a mummy. In order to protect
itself, the mother’s organism encased the foetus in a calciferous
substance so that the immune system does not start a reaction.
So there you have it, the story behind
“stone babies”. However unfortunate the situation is, it is amazing how
old and bizarre myths influence communities.
This is a picture of a lady suffering from a similar condition
The picture above is the reference image
for a lithopedion.
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