Baby grew in abdomen
NZPA Chapel Hill, North Carolina A healthy baby boy who developed in his mother’s abdomen instead of in the womb was bom yesterday (New Zealand time) at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. Doctors speculated that early in Mrs Shirley Patterson’s pregnancy, the fertilised egg slipped out of the uterus and began to develop in the abdomen. They said the placenta probably hooked into blood vessels near the pelvis for its blood supply. This type of development and birth was too rare to calculate its chances of occurring.
Family members called the 2.75 kg David Lee Patterson a miracle baby.
“We waited for a long time for this child,” said Mr Charles Patterson, a first-time father after 13 years of marriage. “When doctors were unable to hear a foetal heartbeat we both prayed about it. I believe in God and believed He wanted us to have the baby.”
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