🪨 She carried a baby for 61 years. Not out of love — but because she had no choice. In 1948, 31-year-old Huang Yijun from China was told her pregnancy was ectopic — the foetus was growing outside her womb, in her abdomen. It didn’t survive. 💔 Doctors advised immediate surgery... But Huang couldn’t afford it. She felt no pain. So she let it be. Over time, her body did something incredible: It calcified the foetus, encasing it in calcium to protect her. It became a lithopaedion — aka a “stone baby.” She lived with it for 61 years. No major issues. No one knew. Until 2009, at 92 years old, she started feeling discomfort… And doctors discovered the forgotten fetus inside her. 🧠 One of the longest-documented cases of lithopaedion in history. A wild, haunting reminder of what the human body can survive. #the_technical_nurse