Australian doctor stunned by baby which grew outside womb

0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008

SYDNEY (AFP) — An Australian doctor on Friday hailed as a "miracle" a baby girl who survived a full-term pregnancy outside the womb.

Durga Thangarajah was delivered by caesarean 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 foetus 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 told AFP.

"I deliver...