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.

Watch scans of the calcified foetus in shocking footage above A WOMAN, 81, has died after doctors found an incredibly rare “stone baby” in her stomach that she had been carrying for over five decades.

Lithopedion, a rare condition where a fetus dies and calcifies in the mother's body, occurs due to untreated ectopic pregnancy. This natural defense mechanism prevents infection. It has been ...

A 81-year-old woman from Aral Moreira, Brazil, Daniela Vera, has died after undergoing surgery to remove a 56-year-old lithopedion, a calcified foetus, from her abdomen. Daniela had unknowingly ...

An 81-year-old Brazilian woman died after undergoing surgery to remove a 56-year-old foetus from her abdomen. Daniela Vera unknowingly had an ectopic pregnancy when she was younger, and complaints of ...

DOCTORS were stunned to find a calcified foetus that had been trapped inside a 92-year-old's body for more than seven decades while treating her for a fall. Doctors discovered the lifeless embryo when ...

A WOMAN, 81, has died after doctors found an incredibly rare “stone baby” in her stomach that she had been carrying for over five decades. Mum-of-seven Daniela Almeida Vera was rushed to surgery after ...