ALIVE! Miracle baby survives pregnancy outside uterus

07 May 2016 - 14:44
By TMG Digital

A 28-year-old Gauteng woman who had an undiagnosed but dangerous abdominal pregnancy has delivered a 1.8kg boy.The woman was 32 weeks pregnant when she experienced lower abdominal pain during a visit to Newcastle‚ KwaZulu-Natal‚ on April 28."An ultrasound was performed at Newcastle Hospital‚ and a diagnosis of abdominal pregnancy was suspected by the ultrasonographer and confirmed by Dr Nonhlanhla Dlamini‚ the head of the obstetric department‚" said Dr Prem Naicker‚ who led the team of four surg...

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