Huang Yijun, aged 92, is from southern China and she recently made news in 2009 after delivering a baby known as a lithopedion, aka ‘Stone Baby’.
Huang Yijun told the press she didn’t have the money to have her fetus removed after doctors told her it had died inside her in 1948.
So she simply did nothing at all about it.
Lithopedion is a very rare medical phenomenon, which occurs when a pregnancy fails and the fetus actually calcifies while still in the mother’s body.
Medically speaking, what often happens is the implanted fetus gets to an advanced stage before it dies. Too large to be absorbed by the body, the remains of the child or its surrounding amniotic sac slowly calcify, turning to stone as a way to protect the woman’s body from infection from the decomposing tissue.
If no complications occur, believe it or not, the mother can basically just go on with her life.
According to the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, only 290 cases of lithopedions have ever been documented by medical literature.
Asafa Powell's agent has revealed he failed a drugs test
Five Jamaican athletes, including two Olympic
medallists, have tested positive for banned performance-enhancing drugs,
according to the country's anti-doping authority.
Herb Elliott, chairman of the Jamaican Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO),
confirmed the body had received "reports of adverse analytical findings
from 'A' samples."
He said: "The process of the result management has commenced in accordance with the JADCO anti-doping rules.
"We cannot disclose any further information until the athletes have responded to notification of the 'A' sample."
Sprinter Asafa Powell was revealed to be one of the athletes after his management company confirmed he had failed a drugs test.
Tyson Gay revealed he had tested positive for an unknown
Powell's agent Paul Doyle confirmed the former 100m world record holder had tested positive for a banned substance.
The 30-year-old has won gold medals in the 4x100m relay at the Olympics
and World Championships and is a former world record holder.
Sources told Reuters that two of the athletes were sprinters while
three competed in field events. They added that one of the athletes was a
junior.
Last month, Jamaica's most successful female athlete Veronica
Campbell-Brown tested positive for a diuretic, which can be used to mask
the use of performancing-enhancing drugs.
The twice Olympic 200 metres champion has been suspended by the
Jamaican Athletics Administrative Association pending the outcome of a
disciplinary panel hearing.
It comes after former double sprint world champion Tyson Gay announced
on Sunday that he had tested positive for a substance he could not
identify and was withdrawing from next month's world championships in
Moscow.
The American, who had the year's fastest 100 metre time of 9.75
seconds, said he was notified by the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) on
Friday that his A sample from an out-of-competition test on May 16 had
returned a positive.
He said: "I don't have a sabotage story. I don't have lies... I basically put my trust in someone and I was let down.
"I made a mistake."
Medically speaking, what often happens is the implanted fetus gets to an advanced stage before it dies. Too large to be absorbed by the body, the remains of the child or its surrounding amniotic sac slowly calcify, turning to stone as a way to protect the woman’s body from infection from the decomposing tissue.
