An Australian doctor yesterday hailed as a “miracle” a baby girl who survived a full-term pregnancy outside the womb.
Durga Thangarajah was delivered by cesarian section at Darwin Private Hospital on Thursday after spending almost nine months growing inside her mother’s right ovary — stretching the organ’s tissue as thin as paper.
Obstetrician Andrew Miller said the chances of a fetus lodging in an ovary were one in 40,000 but that the chances of such a pregnancy producing a healthy baby were almost nil.
Asked whether the birth was miracle, Miller said: “Oh yes.”
“It’s an extraordinarily unusual outcome and I am not aware of anyone who has seen a [full] term ovarian pregnancy as we have here,” he said, adding, “I deliver anything up to 520 [babies] a year here privately and I’ve never seen anything like this before.”
An ectopic pregnancy, in which the fetus develops outside the womb, usually involves the fertilized egg lodging in the fallopian tubes which link the ovaries to the uterus. The condition places the woman’s life at risk because of the likelihood the fetus will cause a rupture resulting in pain and blood loss, and is usually resolved by a miscarriage or termination.
Miller said the condition had not been detected in this case because the mother, 34-year-old Meera Thangarajah, had not had early pre-natal scans and had had a trouble-free pregnancy.
Until he performed the operation on Thursday, he thought he would deliver the baby normally from the womb while also removing a large fibroid that scans had detected.
It was only after he made the incision that he released that what doctors had misdiagnosed as a fibroid, an overgrowth of the muscle of the womb was in fact the mother’s womb and the baby was in the ovary.
“She’s [Meera] very lucky to be here with baby Durga this morning,” Millar said.
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