Girl without vagina becomes pregnant. How? A knife fight, of course.

Somebody get that thing a medal

How are babies made? A vagina is normally a key ingredient. And during most conceptions, knife fights don’t come into play. But a 15-year-old girl living in the African nation of Lesotho has rocked the medical community with a pregnancy where the term “miraculous” might be the biggest understatement of the year.

When the girl approached doctors exhibiting all the symptoms of labor, they were forced to cancel their lunch break when they discovered the woman had been born without a vagina. Her vulva contained only shallow, dimpled skin in place of a vagina (called Mullerian agenesis), forcing doctors to deliver the baby via C-section. Doctors were shocked. How could a girl with genitals that allowed no access for sperm become pregnant? After going through her records hospital staff discovered that the girl had been admitted to the hospital 278 days earlier with a knife wound in her stomach. The typical pregnancy lasts 280 days. Further investigation led to the discovery that just before the girl was stabbed in the abdomen she had performed fellatio on her new boyfriend. Her former lover walked in and caught her in the act, prompting a knife fight. When the girl was injured, two holes from a stab wound opened her stomach up to her abdominal cavity. Doctors cleansed her stomach with a salt solution and closed the wounds with stitches. And then at least one very, very ambitious sperm had the ride of his life.

Dr. Richard Paulson, head of the University of Southern California Fertility Program in Los Angeles, said, "Here's an unbelievable set of coincidences. But it's totally plausible." Although fertilization normally occurs in the fallopian tubes, sperm have the ability to swim up and out of the reproductive organs into the abdominal cavity. The authors of the report theorized that a pregnancy could only occur if the girl had ovulated once or at most twice before her pregnancy, as consistent menstruation would have filled the girl’s stomach with blood, and would have required an operation to prevent eventual death.

It’s a bizarre story, but the baby’s existence is a testament to the miraculous capabilities of sperm. Everyone in the scenario is in good health, and now there’s only one thing left for the mother to do: Start working on her answer to her child’s eventual question of “Mommy, how are babies made?”

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