"Suze Lopez, a 41-year-old emergency room nurse in Bakersfield, California, delivered baby Ryu via surgery in August, so the newborn is celebrating his first Christmas. He had been an ectopic pregnancy when a fertilized egg implants and grows outside the uterus and was hidden behind a large ovarian cyst. Doctors at Ceder-Sinai hospital in Los Angeles called the dangerous pregnancy extremely rare occurring in just one in 30,000 pregnancies and have plans to document the case in medical journals."
"Dr John Ozimek, who oversees the hospital's labor and delivery ward, remarked that pregnancies outside the uterus that reach full term are essentially unheard of far, far less than one in a million, he said to the Associated Press. I mean, this is really insane, he added. Lopez found out that she was pregnant only days before giving birth. Since her 20s, she had been dealing with ovarian cysts. She previously had her right ovary removed along with another cyst."
A 41-year-old emergency room nurse in Bakersfield delivered baby Ryu by surgery after an ectopic pregnancy grew outside the uterus and was concealed behind a long-standing ovarian cyst. Doctors at Ceder-Sinai described the condition as extremely rare, estimating occurrence at about one in 30,000 pregnancies and noting full-term ectopic pregnancies are far rarer. The mother discovered the pregnancy only days before delivery amid monitoring of a 22lb cyst and a history of irregular periods and prior cyst removal. Medical staff plan to document the case in journals, and the infant celebrated his first Christmas.
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