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Meet the Woman Who Carried a Fetus for 60 Years

It calcified inside her uterus, thus she was never able to get pregnant

(Newser) - It's something of a bittersweet coda: A 91-year-old Chilean woman learned earlier this year that she'd unwittingly carried a 4.4-pound calcified fetus for decades, and she now tells CNN it's the reason she and her husband could never have children. Estela Meléndez, 91, learned the...

Doctors Find 44-Year-Old Fetus in Woman, 84

Brazilian woman says she became pregnant decades ago

(Newser) - In a story as bizarre as it is deja vu-ish , a 44-year-old fetus has been found in an 84-year-old Brazilian woman. The Daily Mail reports by way of G1 that the discovery came last Friday, when the woman's intense stomach pains landed her in a hospital in Tocantins state...

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