Plumber 'gives birth' to twin in scene reminiscent of Alien

[bijou]

Gavin Hyatt, 30, explained that the lump forced its way out after lying inside his abdomen since he was born.

Medics said the 4cm growth was a parasitic twin that died in the womb early in their mother's pregnancy.

   Mr Hyatt, a former firefighter, from Witney, Oxfordshire, said: "Four hospital doctors had previously examined me and were all puzzled by the lump.

"Some thought it was a cyst, others an in-grown hair.

"Then one said it could be my undeveloped identical twin that I absorbed at a very early stage. I feel absolutely fine now but it has not sunk in yet that I could have had a twin brother. I have him in a jar at home and I call him little Gav. I haven't told many people. I feel like a bit of a freak."

Mr Hyatt, who has four children with his wife Kate, spent a week in and out of hospital after making an emergency appointment with the GP.

An operation at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital was cancelled at the last minute and he went home. But later he felt a stabbing pain near his belly button. Lifting his shirt, he saw he was bleeding as the lump pushed through the skin. At that point he drove himself to his local surgery.

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[debk]

A former neighbor of mine had a hysterectomy, it's probably be 25 years ago or more.

It was done because she had a "tumor" in her uterus.

Turns out the "tumor" had hair, bits of what would be bone, teeth. The doctors determined that she probably had twins when she had her first child (who's about 35 now) and the one never completely formed, nor was it expelled when she delivered her daughter.

Stuff like this makes pregnancy ultrasounds, that are routinely done these days, a good thing.

[Airwolf]

I say we take off now and nuke the site from orbit,It's the only way to be sure.

This is weird considering how next weekend in Louisville, Ky is a showing of "Alien" and thats the theme of the contest.

[seabelle]

There's a photo at this link:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2420523.ece

This is not uncommon, especially in poorer countries for some reason   I remember a TLC doc on a 7 year old with a really distended abdomen in South America (?)  It turned out to be his "absorbed twin" too.

[debk]

From what I have heard, absorbing a twin is not that uncommon. Though I think with the advent of ultrasounds and doing at least one each trimester, there are fewer incidences of surprise.

I remember being really shocked when it happened to my neighbor, but her doctor wasn't so much surprised that it was there, but that it hadn't been found sooner.