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For some women, pregnancy is a time of profound loss. Not all pregnancies progress as expected. One serious complication is ectopic pregnancy, a condition in which a fertilized egg implants somewhere ...

It sounds like a horror story, but it’s real—stone babies, or lithopedions, are one of the rarest and most shocking medical conditions ever recorded. A doctor explains how this happens, why it goes ...

Last week's episode of Call The Midwife featured a heartbreaking storyline which shed light on a rare pregnancy phenomenon known as lithopedion - when a woman is forced to deliver a calcified foetus.

Last week's episode of Call The Midwife featured a heartbreaking storyline which shed light on a rare pregnancy phenomenon known as lithopedion - when a woman is forced to deliver a calcified foetus.

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