The unborn child grows like a mermaid in the womb

A young Chinese mother is forced to abort her when she finds a baby in the abdomen with rare syndrome that causes a tail to grow in the leg position.

Ultrasound images show that the fetus has a long tail like a fish's tail.(Photo: Twitter).

International Business Times reported yesterday that doctors found an abnormal sign when pregnant woman named Wu, 23, in Yichang City in Hubei Province, China, came to check-in at the 6th month. Negative shows that the fetus grows a tail, has poor liver development and no bladder.

Doctors confirmed the fetus with Mermaid Syndrome , also known as sirenomelia, a rare congenital deformity that causes the legs to be bunched together and shaped like a fish's tail.

According to experts, babies can only survive a few hours after birth. The mermaid syndrome appears only in one of 100,000 pregnancies.