Really creepy. Seriously. I don’t recommend anyone with a weak stomach or people who can freak themselves out with mental imagery continue.

Bonnie, you are specifically forbidden to read further. I’m serious.

Okay then…

Boy’s body ‘pregnant’ with twin brother.

Doctors believe the two foetuses should have developed into conjoined twins.
“At first we saw that the boy’s organs were squeezed by a large hard swelling covered with black hair,” one surgeon told a British newspaper.
“As we washed him, we could see that inside him he had his own twin brother. Mourat had been a Siamese twin but nobody knew it.
“Something had gone wrong during his mother’s pregnancy and the baby grew inside his brother.”
Valentina Vostrikova, chief surgeon at Chimkent Children’s Hospital, told the newspaper: “It was remarkable. For seven years it lived like a parasite inside the boy’s body.”

Okay, that’s about the most chilling goddamn thing I’ve seen in years. Can I just say “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!” and get that out of the way? Seriously.

That said, it sounds like a hell of an interesting idea for a horror story.

"Open your mind, Mr. Quaid ... open your miiiiiiind ..."

Yeah, that's pretty creepy. Biology isn't pretty.

Frell....

Dave beat me to it!

Happens a lot, actually. My aunt had an absorbed twin removed when she was in her thirties. It was a cystlike lump in her abdomen, been there all along...

That's just like in the movie "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" when the aunt said that her twin was growing in her throat. Stanger things could happen, I guess.

Woo-hoo! I beat Stan! I beat Stan! Woo-hoo!

Somehow reminds me of the bit where you take two different mouse... um.. blastocysts? Just a few cell divisions along, you know, one white and one black, and stick them together and they'll make one piebald mouse. Gotta wonder how that would work out with a human but hope nobody's actually conducting that experiment.

Oh, there was an X-Files episode about that, my friend...
http://www.thex-files.com/episodes/season2/2x20.html

"Scully realizes that Lanny's twin brother, Leonard, is capable of extracting himself from his brother's body. The murderer is so physically small that he was able to climb through the doggie door in Nutt's trailer."

The CREEEEPY part is that this episode was based in Gibsonton, FL, right outside of Tampa. So, when we watched it, it was creepy to think it was happening down the street.

Gibsonton is an old "carny" town. Lobsterboy and several other interesting people live there.

Hey, Randy, that's what I do for a living! Seriously, I'll be injecting stem cells from a brown mouse into the blastocyst from a black mouse tomorrow! :)

The idea is that the brown-mouse stem cells have been previously injected with some DNA of interest, and then the ones that actually pick that DNA up can be grown up on a plate. Then, hopefully when you inject them into the black-mouse blastocyst, they will incorporate into it, specifically into the part that will become the black-and-brown mouse's reproductive organs, so all of its children will be from the brown-mouse-with-interesting-DNA cell.

It could be done with humans, I guess.

As for the post, I heard that Queen Mary of England was growing a large tumor with teeth and hair... Though that could just be slander put out by Elizabeth. Anyway, I think it's something that just happens, every once in a while...

So, you know when you tell me I can't read something I must move forward. All I can say is... thank God we are doing ultrasounds every week to two weeks.

There was a King book along this line. The Dark Half.

I don't have the link right hear, but one day at work we got into a talk about how spooky twins were and some looking...I want to say that 60% of solo fetuses have absorbed a twin. And in twins it's much more common to have abosorbed other fetuses, but at this stage we're talking about say anywhere from 16 to a couple thousand cells.

baby, baby, baby... hee hee.
Haven't noticed anything sinister about Julian yet, except that he seems to actually like my singing. We did see if they'd do the hearing test twice... but he's too little to have someone else in there with him, I think.