, "a woman with a birth defect that left her without a vagina still got pregnant after she was stabbed shortly following oral sex with her partner. Doctors say the bittersweet story shows the incredible survival of sperm."
In 1988, a 15-year-old girl living in the small southern African nation of Lesotho came to local doctors with all the symptoms of a woman in labor. But the doctors were quickly puzzled because, upon examination, she didn't have a vagina.
"Inspection of the vulva showed no vagina, only a shallow skin dimple," so doctors delivered a healthy baby boy via Caesarean, the authors wrote in a case report published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Her birth defect -- called Mullerian agenesis or Mayer-Rokitansky-Küster-Hauser syndrome -- didn't necessarily surprise doctors, but her pregnancy did. Even the 15-year-old girl could not believe she was pregnant.
Yet by looking at her records the hospital staff realized the young woman was in the hospital 278 days earlier with a knife wound to her stomach. The average pregnancy lasts 280 days. After interviews, they gathered that "Just before she was stabbed in the abdomen she had practiced fellatio with her new boyfriend and was caught in the act by her former lover. The fight with knives ensued."
The girl arrived at the hospital with an empty stomach -- and therefore with little stomach acid around -- and doctors found two holes from a stab wound that opened her stomach up to her abdominal cavity. The case report said doctors washed her stomach out with a salt solution and stitched her up.
"A plausible explanation for this pregnancy is that spermatozoa gained access to the reproductive organs via the injured gastrointestinal tract," the authors wrote. Read the rest of the article
here.
What do you think about this? Did you think sperm could survive and swim inside the body?
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That's the oddest case I've ever heard and a bit scary.
That sounds really crazy, but nothing is impossible in this world.
wtfff
Wouldn't the acid in your stomach kill it?
uhm?
Subhanna Allah! Allah (SWT) work miracles every day and this should be proof to Atheists. This birth and pregnancy are a miracle. If Allah (SWT) had not intended this pregnancy to happen, it would not have occurred.
Man, stories like this always invoke a bit of jealousy for me, as we're trying to get pregnant but have had no luck yet....lol.
Wow.
I call complete BS.
interesting
Very interesting story...a bit crazy!
This sounds impossible... As some of the doctors in the article said, if she had been having periods, her stomach would have been full of blood since there was no outlet. She would have had to have surgery to save her life from that alone. It's possible it was a miracle... But yeah.
a 15-year old performing fellatio and having a scorned ex-lover, eh? those three are classy.
@firetyger@xanga - That's what I was thinking...it seems physically impossible for her to have a normally functioning uterus and be ovulating and all.
All the more reason to not give a blow job!!
o.o
What in the world? So now it's possible to get pregnant even if no sexual intercourse was involved? What are the odds.
This sounds familiar to the "Son of a Gun" urban legend. I find this HIGHLY implausible, but not going to say it's outright impossible.
Ok, those of you calling BS, how do you think she got pregnant, then? If it's not possible for her to have sex, then how do you THINK it happened?
Somebody should have told her not to swallow that stuff!
Research the condition and see how women with the condition have periods. THEN comment. Why the hell isn't anyone consulting google to see if it's even possible or not?
*headdesk*
Probably the most bizarre thing I've heard in a long time--true or not--wow.
I had to recommend this for story alone. I'm going to Google the story, then look up the condition to be sure.
I read this in the paper two days ago.
To answer your question: I thought it could, but it would have to be within a short period of time after she swallowed it, which I am assuming is how it got into her stomach. Usually, the rest of the sperm "dies" once the egg is fertilised, so I am guessing that sperm has a pretty short life span in the woman's body.
I wouldn't put it past the situation, though. If the guy walked in and saw her doing that, then I can't think of anything else he'd do before the knifing, so yeah, it makes sense to me.
EDIT: Okay, now I am confused. Apparently women with this condition just don't have periods. So where the hell did the egg come from?! This is why biology never was my thing...