In Temuco, Chile last week a boy was born with a live fetus in his stomach. The boy wasn’t pregnant despite what my headline would have you believe. A newborn can’t get pregnant. And neither can a boy. Rather, the little Chilean was born with what doctors call “fetus in fetu” which is an extremely rare case in which one twin gets trapped inside of the other and continues to grow. This occurs in one in every 500,000 births and there have only been 90 recorded cases in the world. The fetus was 4 inches long, had limbs and a spine but unfortunately, no head. Doctors said it had no chance of survival. Well yeah, it had no head. Doctors removed the headless fetus from the boy and he is recovering at a local hospital. Not the fetus, the newborn. The only other similar case to my knowledge is that of Dwight Schrute on “The Office” who reabsorbed his twin’s fetus in utero. Dwight said of this occurrence, “Do I regret this? No. I believe his tissue has made me stronger. I now have the strength of a grown man and a little baby.”
•Reuters: Boy Born With Fetus In Stomach
There also is a reference to this phenomena in My Big Fat Greek Wedding when a family member describes the lump removed from her neck.