Occasionally, doctors and parents get a shock during seemingly routine births. Researchers recently highlighted one unusual case from 2010, in which a newborn girl in China came into the world "pregnant" with twins.
Occasionally a human birth is anything but ordinary. A recent report highlighted a rare case from 2010, in which a baby girl born in Hong Kong was found to be carrying twin fetuses.
The study surrounding the birth has been chronicled in the Hong Kong Medical Journal. The roughly 9-pound infant was born with a condition known as fetus in fetu.
Initially, doctors thought she had tumors in her abdomen, but soon discovered the two growths were actually a pair of fetuses, aged between 8 and ten weeks.
Each was found to have a rib cage, spine, anus, an umbilical cord, brain matter, intestines and four limbs. The fetuses weighed less than an ounce combined.
A specialist in obstetrics and gynecology stated, "Since it is impossible for the little girl to have conceived th
