According to the Unilad website, the shocking discovery was found in the stomach of a 73-year-old grandmother. Inside the woman's abdomen, a fetus that had turned to stone was discovered. Initially, the Algerian woman experienced unbearable stomach pain. She was then rushed to the emergency room of a hospital.

"The doctor who treated the patient took the necessary actions. They scanned the abdomen of the elderly patient. But how shocked they were when they discovered the culprit that caused the old woman’s stomach pain. The medical team found a 'stone baby' in the fallopian tube."

According to the National Library of Medicine, litopedion is a very rare condition that refers to an ectopic pregnancy [pregnancy outside the uterus] that develops into fetal death and results in calcification. A doctor named Karan Raj, through his TikTok channel, stated that “This is when a fetus dies during an ectopic pregnancy.”

"Ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg attaches outside the uterus, usually in one of the fallopian tubes. The National Health Service (NHS) states that ectopic pregnancy cannot be saved due to the risks to the mother's health if the baby continues to grow. Surgery is usually the only option."

“This is a very rare type of ectopic pregnancy where the fetus grows outside the uterus,” said Dr. Raj. “If the fetus that has died is too large to be absorbed back by the mother’s body, then it becomes a foreign object to the mother’s immune system,” he added.”

"In the case of the elderly female patient, the calcified fetus was 35 years old. Many TikTok viewers of Dr. Raj claimed to be shocked by this finding, one of them commented: 'Isn't it crazy what our bodies can do naturally?'"

“Every day in this app is another day to learn about how pregnancy is truly a horror for the body,” commented another. “That unfortunate woman,” said one netizen commenting on the elderly patient.

“New fears have emerged,” said another netizen. This condition is indeed very rare, as according to the UK National Library of Medicine, this condition occurs in only 0.0054 percent of all pregnancies. So the chances are very small.