"Before little Ryu was born, he developed outside his mom's womb, hidden by a basketball-sized ovarian cyst a dangerous situation so rare that his doctors plan to write about the case for a medical journal. Just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus, and those that make it to full term are essentially unheard of far, far less than 1 in a million, said Dr. John Ozimek, medical director of labor and delivery at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles where Ryu was born. I mean, this is really insane."
"Lopez, a 41-year-old nurse who lives in Bakersfield, California, didn't know she was pregnant with her second child until days before giving birth. When her belly began to grow earlier this year, she thought it was her ovarian cyst getting bigger. Doctors had been monitoring the mass since her 20s, leaving it in place after removing her right ovary and another cyst. Lopez experienced none of the usual pregnancy symptoms, such as morning sickness, and never felt kicks."
Suze Lopez carried a pregnancy that developed outside the uterus and remained hidden inside a basketball-sized ovarian cyst. Doctors had monitored the mass for years after removing her right ovary and another cyst. Lopez experienced none of the usual pregnancy symptoms, including morning sickness, and never felt fetal movements. Her menstrual cycles are irregular and she sometimes goes years without a period. Abdominal pregnancies occur in about 1 in 30,000 pregnancies, and those reaching full term are far rarer, estimated at well under one in a million. Medical staff at Cedars-Sinai characterized the occurrence as exceptionally rare and intend to document the case.
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