Mother of 46-year-old fetus in stable state after delivering oldest baby

A 75-year old woman whom surgeons operated on to take out a 46-year-old fetus, is in a stable status, said one of the surgeons who performed the surgery.

Professor Wazzani Taibi, head of the gynecology department at the Rabat maternity, said Friday at a press conference the rural woman went in 1956 to deliver her baby but when doctors told her she will undergo a caesarian operation, she left the hospital. But last July, as she felt abdominal pains and went to the hospital, a radiography revealed the skeleton of a fetus inside a calcareous envelop.

Doctors conducted the surgery that lasted for over 2 hours to extract the fetus that weighed 3.5 kg and the woman left the hospital after 7 days.

The case is a very rare instance of extra-uterine pregnancy.