- This is one of those stories where we don’t quite know where to begin.
Life always finds a way. Even if it has to violently create a new opening to make new life happen.
For some creatures, that’s just part of their horrendous procreation ritual. For others, though, it’s something that happens by freak accident.
Like this teenage girl.
A teen girl in Lesotho showed up at a hospital complaining about terrible stomach pain. While examining her, doctors discovered that the pain was contractions and she was about to give birth to a baby.
That was an interesting situation, considering that she couldn’t possibly be pregnant. To begin with, they found that she had no vaginal opening, and second, she had not had sex.
Well, she had had oral sex. Turns out, her boyfriend caught her mid-act with another guy nine months earlier and stabbed her in the stomach in blind rage.
Consequently, some sperm she sucked out from the other guy was able to travel through the wound into her womb and get her pregnant.
This sure is one of those “when the stars align once in a million years” kind of bizarre events.
Mystery Pain
Right, let’s start off by making two things clear. First, this incident was reported in 1988 so it’s quite old. But we sure had never heard of it before, and we’re certain you haven’t either.
Second, it does involve a 15-year-old girl. We don’t condone any of the involved behavior, but you try getting teens to keep it in their pants.
With that out of the way, let’s set the scene. The place is Lesotho, a country in Southern Africa.
Our girl arrives at a hospital. Talking to the doctors, she explains that she’s lately been suffering from pain in her stomach, the agony coming on in waves.
The doctors started examining her and quickly found out the problem. She was pregnant.
Not only was she pregnant, she was giving birth. The pain she was feeling were contractions as her body tried to push the baby out.
It all sounds relatively normal so far, but things are about to get really weird.
All Hatches Battened
The first issue the doctors faced was that the baby didn’t seem to be coming out. During further examinations, they discovered that there was quite literally no way for the baby to leave its mother.
Our girl had no vaginal opening. There was no connection between her vagina and womb.
This condition, called distal vaginal atresia, is not unique to the girl, but it is rare. It affects an estimated one in 10,000 females.
However, the baby needed to get out, so the doctors got to work. They knocked the girl out and performed an emergency C-section.
As a result, she gave birth to a healthy 6.2-pound baby boy. Congratulations!
Sucked Into the Right Place
Yet, there was another mystery to solve. Namely, how could the girl get pregnant when… You know, there wasn’t a hole for sperm to travel through.
Even if there were, the girl hadn’t had sex in a time frame that fit the pregnancy. So what was going on?
Well, nine months earlier, the girl had been to the hospital on a different issue. She had been viciously stabbed in her stomach.
Turns out that she’s not the most faithful partner. Her boyfriend had happened to walk in on her while she was going down on another guy — just as he delivered the goods, so to say.
Enraged, the betrayed boyfriend grabbed a knife and stabbed the girl. She was rushed to a hospital, treated, and recovered successfully.
However, as she was stabbed, she received cuts into the digestive tract. By coincidence, that digestive tract was also transporting the sperm she had swallowed.
By an absolute miracle, some of the sperm had leaked out of her food tubes and traveled into her reproductive organs. Once there, it did what sperm does best and knocked her up.
Typically, the stomach is much too acidic for sperm to survive. However, being underfed makes the stomach less acidic, and — according to the doctors — the girl was malnourished at the time, which probably helped the sperm survive.
So, as the doctors noted in their report, this was not a case of “miraculous conception.” They say that, but the odds of all of this happening is probably so slim that we’re filing this under miracles.