In a unconventional flip of events straight out of Mr. Ripley’s personal files, comes this true story of a 92-year-old lady who delivered a baby(albeit not a live baby) that she had been carrying for over half a century.

Huang Yijun, aged 92, is from southern China and she recently created news by delivering a lithopedion, aka ‘Stone Baby’.

Huang Yijun told the press she didn't have the cash to get her fetus removed when the doctors told her it had died in year 1948.So she merely did nothing concerning it.

Lithopedion could be a terribly rare medical development, which happens once a maternity fails and also the fetus really calcifies while still in the mother’s body.

Medically speaking, what usually happens is that the constituted fetus gets to a sophisticated stage before it dies. too large to be absorbed by the body, the remains of the kid or its surrounding amniotic sac slowly calcify, turning to stone as the simplest way to safeguard the woman’s body from the decomposing tissue's infection.

If no complications occur, believe it or not, the mother can simply continue leaving her life.

According to the Journal of the honorary society of medicine, 290 cases of lithopedions have been documented by medical literature so far.