A healthy baby girl was born to a 22-year-old woman outside of her womb, UK MailOnline reported.
When she was 32 weeks pregnant, a Tanzanian woman found out that the development of the baby was being carried out in her abdomen.
The fallopian tube, which is responsible for producing fertilized eggs, implanted the fertilized egg into her abdomen, according to UK MailOnline.
Not feeling the baby moving very much and having abdominal pain was the reason she ended up in a hospital in Mwanza, Tanzania.
She was told that the pregnancy was progressing normally after attending two antenatal check-ups. Since her ultrasound scan in Mwanza appeared to be normal except for the anemia and urinary tract infection, doctors assumed the pregnancy was textbook.
When she was treated for her conditions, the symptoms lessened, UK MailOnline reported.
When they treated her for these conditions, her symptoms eased a little. "However, two days later, a second scan showed that the woman's baby was actually floating in her abdominal cavity," UK MailOnline reported.
"The patient was found to be carrying a viable baby even though it was not in a protective amniotic sac and was not surrounded by the normal amniotic fluid," UK MailOnline reported. "She was also noted to have a normal, but empty, womb and normal ovaries and fallopian tubes."
The baby girl was successfully delivered during surgery and weighed 1.7 kg.
"I've seen maybe four or five abdominal pregnancies over the course of 25 years," Dr. Jill Rabin, chief of ambulatory care, obstetrics and gynecology at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York, told Live Science.
She added, "It's very rare, but you have to keep it in your mind when examining a pregnant woman who has abdominal pain."
