Photos: Baby Born 'Pregnant' With His Twin Brother

A baby boy was born 'pregnant' with his own twin brother. Doctors discovered the half-formed male baby - complete with a brain, arm and legs - behind the otherwise-healthy baby boy's stomach after he was born.

They successfully operated to remove the 7cm mass, which they suspect was a rare 'foetus in fetu' twin pregnancy - one of around 200 ever recorded in the world.

Radiologist Dr Bhavna Thorat, who spotted the problem during a routine scan, said: 'It was inside a fetal sac of the newborn.'


The unnamed baby and his 19-year-old mother from Mumbra, in India, are both healthy and doing well. Dr Thorat noticed the abnormality during a routine scan of the pregnant woman at Bilal Hospital in Mumbra in early July.

When the baby was born nine days later on July 20 he scanned the baby and found 'another small baby' inside the newborn's abdomen.