Baby who grew outside uterus passes on

Apr 22, 2021

Speaking to the New Vision, Dr. Herbert Kalema, a Senior Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the hospital said the baby was too tiny and weighed only 600 grams.

Baby who grew outside uterus passes on

Betty Amamukirori
Journalist @New Vision

A baby, who grew outside the uterus (Intra-abdominal) and had been successfully delivered by two senior medics at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital, has died.

 

Speaking to the New Vision, Dr. Herbert Kalema, a Senior Obstetrician/Gynecologist at the hospital said the baby was too tiny and weighed only 600 grams.

 

“The baby passed on. She was too tiny, weighing less than one kilogram. We also discharged the mother yesterday (Wednesday),” he said.

 

On April 16, Dr. Kalema and Dr. Richard Okello successfully delivered the baby through surgery, after noticing that she had an intestinal obstruction and could not pass stool. At the time of delivery, the baby was only 26 weeks.

 

Intra-abdominal pregnancy, according to the journal of practical medical imagining and management, is a type of ectopic pregnancy wherein the fetus grows in the abdominal cavity. 

 

It explains that the extra uterine implantation can occur in the omentum (a sheet of fat that connects the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering), the large vessels or even in the vital organs. 

 

“Abdominal pregnancies account for 0.1% of all pregnancies and up to 1.4% of ectopic pregnancies,” said.

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