Pregnant for 46 years

Evo

Quote by jarednjames

Haven't there been cases where someone has been born and had an abnormal growth and when checked by doctors it's turned out to be their twin? Or what should have been, but has developed inside the other sibling.

Not strictly alive, can't remember the exact details, but I know it had hair and teeth.

Parasitic twin. I recently watched some awful cases. One was a little boy and his twin was perfectly complete, facing him, hugging him from the front, the only problem was that the twins head was buried inside of his chest. The headless twin grew at the same rate as the complete twin, and it's legs even responded to being moved.

Then there was the twin with a parasitic head. The head sucked a pacifier and cried, but there was nothing below the neck, it relied on the first twin to supply it with the nutrition to live.

JaredJames

Quote by Evo

Parasitic twin. I recently watched some awful cases. One was a little boy and his twin was perfectly complete, facing him, hugging him from the front, the only problem was that the twins head was buried inside of his chest. The headless twin grew at the same rate as the complete twin, and it's legs even responded to being moved.

Then there was the twin with a parasitic head. The head sucked a pacifier and cried, but there was nothing below the neck, it relied on the first twin to supply it with the nutrition to live.

Yeah, I've seen loads of stuff like that. Not very nice at all. The main ones that got me are the ones such as those in my linked story, where they didn't know it was another body and it had all those features within the other person. Literally, inside the other one like a pregnancy.

Borek

There are even stranger cases when twins combine in much earlier stages of development, and what borns is a chimera (see Lydia Fairchild case).

G037H3

That's pretty...uh, gross. :(

JaredJames

Quote by Borek

There are even stranger cases when twins combine in much earlier stages of development, and what borns is a chimera (see Lydia Fairchild case).

Strange yes, but I don't find it as 'disgusting' as the other examples here. No abnormal effects as such, just two different DNA strands in one person (I watched a programme on this exact case the other day so it's funny you brought it up).

Borek

I guess we should start defining "abnormal effect". I agree Lydia Fairchild is not disgusting.

JaredJames

I was going for the whole "person in a person" thing (whether a baby in a mother outside of normal pregnancy, or a twin in its sibling). For some reason I don't find people attached externally (siamese twins or the head example from a previous post) as 'disgusting' as the thought of there being a person inside another person, especially when that body has teeth / hair / nails etc.

encorp

Quote by Evo

Then there was the twin with a parasitic head. The head sucked a pacifier and cried, but there was nothing below the neck, it relied on the first twin to supply it with the nutrition to live.

oh my god..........................!

I found on here of a woman pregnant for 60 years!

http://xenophilius.wordpress.com/200...rs-since-1948/

*mugaliens*

Quote by encorp

I found on here of a woman pregnant for 60 years!

I'm very non-squeamish, but reading that article made me sick to my stomach.

AnaShep

A bit off topic but this thread makes me think of the Stephen King novel The Dark Half. The whole book is based on this very idea. One twin was born and as a child they found the second twin eyes, teeth, nose, in the brain. It gets creepy from there.

I read the book as a teen but never made the connection. I guess he wrote it based loosely on a medical possibility.

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Borek Admin	There are even stranger cases when twins combine in much earlier stages of development, and what borns is a chimera (see Lydia Fairchild case).

JaredJames Blog Entries: 8 Recognitions: Gold Member	I was going for the whole "person in a person" thing (whether a baby in a mother outside of normal pregnancy, or a twin in its sibling). For some reason I don't find people attached externally (siamese twins or the head example from a previous post) as 'disgusting' as the thought of there being a person inside another person, especially when that body has teeth / hair / nails etc.

AnaShep	A bit off topic but this thread makes me think of the Stephen King novel The Dark Half. The whole book is based on this very idea. One twin was born and as a child they found the second twin eyes, teeth, nose, in the brain. It gets creepy from there. I read the book as a teen but never made the connection. I guess he wrote it based loosely on a medical possibility.