A baby girl has been born in China together with a mysterious object that looked like a gemstone, a hospital has claimed.
Doctors at the Tiantai People’s Hospital were baffled when they found what they called ‘a piece of beautiful jade’ inside a first-time mother during a recent caesarean section.
The baby was born after the round and yellow object had rolled out of the mother, according to a spokesperson from the hospital.
Doctors in China were shocked when they found what appeared to be a gemstone (pictured) inside a woman during a C-section. The doctors described it as ‘a piece of beautiful jade’
Pang Guiping, the Associate Chief Physician at the hospital, was said to be shocked when she saw the semi-transparent object falling out of her patient during the regular C-section in Taizhou City, eastern China’s Zhejiang Province.
Dr. Pang said that upon discovering the unusual mass, she and her colleagues observed the patient carefully for a while and didn’t notice any other abnormality.
‘Then we decided to carry on with the operation, and very quickly a healthy and adorable baby girl was born,’ said Dr. Pang in a statement.
The object appeared to be yellow and translucent. It was said to measure 4cm (1.57 inches) long, 5cm (1.97 inches) wide and 0.5cm (0.2 inches) thick.
A healthy baby girl was born at the Tiantai People’s Hospital in eastern China’s Zhejiang Province after the doctors found no other abnormality in the mother (file photo)
Although the doctors described it as ‘a piece of beautiful jade’, they also said that the object felt soft and contained liquid inside.
After discussion, the doctors thought it was a ‘peritoneal loose body’.
This is a mass that is thought to form when epiploic appendages – pouches of fat wrapped in the colon’s membrane – are twisted away, so they become detached and loose.
They transform into fibrous lumps and become calcified.
According to doctors from Tiantai People’s Hospital, once a ‘peritoneal loose body’ is formed, it could move around in a person’s abdomen.
That is why it rolled out from the mother’s belly when she underwent a C-section.
In 2015, a man, 62, had a giant 10cm long ‘boiled’ egg inside him (left) which doctors removed. They dyed it with green ink to reveal the calcified proteinous layer in the centre (right)
According to New England Journal of Medicine, a 62-year-old man was found to have a giant ‘peritoneal loose body’ resembling the shape of a boiled egg in 2015.
The lump measured 10cm long (four inches) and was later removed by the doctors in an operation.
The peritoneal loose bodies often have no symptoms when they are small.
But when large enough, they can obstruct the bowel, block the bladder and cause retention of urine.
According to the same journal, doctors have said that any giant loose mass more than 5cm (1.97 inches) wide is rare, and there are only a few reports in medical literature.