Suze Lopez found out she was pregnant only days before giving birth, due to fetus hiding behind 22lb ovarian cyst
A California family is celebrating their first holiday following the delivery of their latest child, a baby that had been growing outside of the mother’s womb.
Suze Lopez, a 41-year-old emergency room nurse in Bakersfield, California, delivered baby Ryu via surgery in August, so the newborn is celebrating his first Christmas. He had been an ectopic pregnancy – when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the uterus – and was hidden behind a large ovarian cyst.
Doctors at Ceder-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles called the dangerous pregnancy extremely rare – occurring in just one in 30,000 pregnancies – and have plans to document the case in medical journals.
Dr John Ozimek, who oversees the hospital’s labor and delivery ward, remarked that pregnancies outside the uterus that reach full term “are essentially unheard of – far, far less than one in a million”, he said to the Associated Press. “I mean, this is really insane,” he added.
