What Is Fetus in Fetu? Nagpur Man Carried His Own Twin For 36 Year

You may have heard about Ritesh Dehsmukh and Genelia D'Souza's recent movie Mister Mummy based on a pregnant man but do you know that there was an actual man from Maharashtra who was referred to as the 'pregnant man'?

Though medical science has said that gender is not a criterion for getting pregnant and that anyone with ovaries and a uterus can conceive. Is there a possibility of a man conceiving, answer is no unless he has ovaries. However, if a man has a bulging belly it is considered to be a tumor or malnutrition but that was not the case with Nagpur's Sanju Bhagat, often known as the 'pregnant man'.

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Nagpur Pregnant Man

Sanju Bhagat was born in 1963 in Nagpur in a farmer's family and from a very young age, he had a bulging stomach. The size of his stomach was not seen as concerning by him or his family until he entered his 20s. The stomach did not seem to reduce and people of his community often made fun of that. Bhagat, on the other hand, did not pay heed to it as he was busy making ends meet for his family by farming daily. 

As time went by, his family got worried about the mocking as well as the fact that it might be a tumor. However, their financial condition was not well enough to get it examined so Bhagat ignored his health. In 1999, Bhagat suffered from difficulty in breathing as the belly bulge pressed with his diaphragm. He was taken to Mumbai and Dr. Ajay Mehta took his case. At first, the doctor also thought that it was a tumor and prepared for the operation. However, when they opened his stomach expecting to take out the tumor, they found another human in his belly.

The doctors reportedly found many bones, flesh, hair, limbs, and part of jaw and genitalia inside the stomach and were horrified by the discovery. Dr. Mehta even said that he could shake hands with someone inside Bhagat's stomach. It was initially claimed that this was a case of 'vanishing twin syndrome' where one of the twins dies during pregnancy and is reabsorbed by the other. However, it was later found that it was actually a case of Fetus in Fetu.

What Is Fetus In Fetu?

Fetus in Fetu is a rare condition that happens in one of 5,00,000 live births in which one twin is born inside the other twin. The twin that is delivered alive works as a host while the twin born inside the other twin lives as a parasite inside the host's body. In most cases, both the twins die before birth but in this case, Bhagat survived. The host twin usually detects something unusual much sooner but Bhagat ignored it for a long time. Bhagat reportedly refused to look at his twin that was taken out of him and went on to live a normal life.