Octo-tot: 8 embryos removed from baby girl in world first

Like a living Russian doll, this newborn held more than a few shocking surprises inside.

Doctors in India were flabbergasted after extracting eight embryos from a 21-day-old baby girl — which marked the most ever found in a newborn.

The extraordinary phenomenon occurred on Oct. 10 after a baby was born with an abnormally swollen stomach at a private hospital in Ramgarh district in the state of Jharkhand, Jam Press reported.

The girl’s parents were initially concerned that the growth was a tumor — a diagnosis that seemed to be supported by investigative CT scans.

She was subsequently transferred to the Rani Children Hospital & Research Centre in the city of Ranchi, where a team, led by Dr. Mohammed Imran, discovered that wasn’t the case.

The infant harbored a record eight embryos in her abdomen.

Instead, she suffered from fetus in fetu (FIF, a “rare congenital anomaly” in which a “malformed and parasitic fetus” forms in the body of its twin. This exceedingly rare condition occurs in about one in 500,000 births, with only 100 or so cases confirmed in history).

This infant’s case was particularly unique as she harbored a record eight underdeveloped fetuses in her abdominal cavity. Doctors said it was the most ever removed from a baby with FIF, which generally doesn’t involve more than a few extra embryos.