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From:  The Pro-Life Infonet
Reply-To:  Steven Ertelt
Subject:   "Miracle Baby" Born Who Grew in Woman's Liver
Source:   BBC; May 23, 2003

"Miracle Baby" Born Who Grew in Woman's Liver

Cape Town, South Africa -- A healthy baby has been born after
developing in its mother's liver instead of in the womb. Reports
from South Africa say Nhlahla, whose name means "luck" in Zulu,
is only the fourth baby ever to survive such a pregnancy.

In all, there have only been 14 documented cases of a child
developing in this way.

Nhlahla was born after specialists performed a difficult
operation to deliver her on Tuesday. The mother had to be put on
oxygen after her birth, where she weighed a healthy 2.8kg, but
was breathing without aid by Thursday.

Doctors said Nhlahla and her mother Ncise Cwayita, 20 - whose
first baby was born normally - were both doing well.

Liver specialist Professor Jack Krige, who helped deliver the
baby, told a South African newspaper: "She is the real thing. She
is truly a miracle baby."

When an egg is fertilised, it normally travels down the fallopian
tube to the womb, where it implants and grows. But sometimes, the
baby implants in the fallopian tube, a standard ectopic
pregnancy.

In some cases - around one in 100,000 pregnancies - it falls out
of the fallopian tube and can implant anywhere in the abdomen. In
extremely rare cases, such as this one, the embryo attaches
itself to the liver, a very rich source of blood. The baby is
protected because it is within the placenta - but it does not
have the usual protection of the womb - and is at more risk in
the abdominal cavity.

Most babies in extrauterine (out of the uterus) pregnancies die
within a few weeks. In this case, doctors only discovered the
baby was growing in the liver when they performed a scan this
week. Her womb was found to be empty, even though her baby was
due in a week.

Cwayita was transferred to the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape
Town.

Dr Bruce Howard said: "We knew it was an extrauterine pregnancy
but we didn't know it was in the liver until we started the
operation on Tuesday morning."

Doctors found a small "window" where the amniotic sac connected
with the outside of the liver where they were able to go in to
deliver the baby. Doctors had to leave the placenta and amniotic
sac in the liver, because the mother's life would have been at
risk. It is expected they will be absorbed back into her body.

Professor James Walker, president of the British Ectopic
Pregnancy Trust, told BBC News Online abdominal pregnancies could
be very dangerous. "The mother is at a huge risk. One in 200
women die before we can do anything to help them. The main
problem for the baby is that it is not protected by the muscular
wall of the womb."

Liver Grown Baby

Is this real or a story made to decieve the sane of mind? It seems improbable that the sperm and egg could venture to the liver? Then again it is improbable that I could be here, so I guess all is possible.