Film: Zahra Aboutalib lives in a village in western Morocco. In 1955, Zahra was pregnant with her first child at age 28. Her water broke and she was rushed to the hospital. She was in labor for 48 hours, up until the doctors determined that she needed a Caesarian section. During her stay at the hospital, she had witnessed a women die from childbirth. Terrified, she fled. After the pains were gone and the baby stopped kicking, Zahra considered him a “sleeping baby”. “Sleeping babies” are, according to Moroccan folk belief, babies that can live inside a woman’s womb to protect her honor or by black or white magic. When Zahra was 75, the pains occurred again. An ultrasound test revealed that her “sleeping child” was actually an ectopic pregnancy. The fetus was successfully removed. [http://lithopedionbaby.wordpress.com/]
Pic 1: a 9-year-old lithopedion
Pic 2: an 18-year-old lithopedion