Fetus in fetu

Sanju Bhagat is a man living in Nagpur, India whose stomach was once so swollen that he looked nine months pregnant and could barely breathe. He had an extremely rare and bizarre condition called fetus in fetu.

Fetus in fetu happens very early in a twin pregnancy, when one fetus wraps around and envelops the other. The dominant fetus grows, while the fetus that would have been its twin lives on throughout the pregnancy, feeding off its host twin like a kind of parasite. Usually, both twins die before birth from the strain of sharing a placenta.

Doctors removed the fetus from the stomach of the 36 year-old in 1999. He is fully recovered now.