Posted: August 19, 2004
1:00 a.m. Eastern

A British hospital is now investigating the case of a woman who had an abortion, but then was shocked to find out the head of her unborn baby had been left inside her.

Davina Chambers, 29, became pregnant this year with her fourth child, but she had just been diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis, a disease eating away at her liver.

"In January, I was a patient at King's College Hospital because I was jaundiced," Chambers told the Voice, which bills itself as Britain's best black newspaper. "The doctors wanted me to stay in the hospital, but after a week I told them that they had to let me out because I had to go home to take care of my three children. My children have always been my priorities. They're my angels."

Chambers became an outpatient at the facility, going in for checkups every two weeks as she needed continual monitoring.

It was during routine medical tests she discovered she was 12 weeks pregnant.

"At the time I was taking eight tablets a day and had all this radiation from the scans, so I couldn't believe that I could be pregnant," she told the paper.

Chambers made the difficult decision to have an abortion.

"I started thinking about it. Here I am very ill, already with three children, and I was very depressed because of the medication I was on."

She was booked into the hospital for the procedure, and even chose to have a coil contraceptive inserted to prevent any future pregnancies.

"When I woke up on the ward, they said that I had had three scans and everything was fine," she told the Voice.

But once she returned home, an unseemly problem began to make itself known.

"At midnight, my ex-partner knocked on the door to check if I was all right. ... I went to the bathroom and as I was sitting there, I just felt something slip out of me as if I had just given birth. I looked in the toilet and saw this lump that seemed to have a bone in it. So I showed it to my former partner."

The couple realized they were looking at the face of their unborn child, seeing the eyes, nose, mouth and ears. The tiny head measured no more than 4 centimeters.


they showed a picture of her and the baby's face How sad!

I know... its awful

thats indeed very sad.

I feel for the parevts, but gimme a freakin break!! The baby suffered a much worse fate.

4HisGlory said:

Your sensitivity is overwhelming. Can't it just be a bad situation all the way around?

4HisGlory said:

Oh, ok then.

Is this real? This is horrible.

I guess you could say they just got 'ahead' of themselves.


I know, I know... sorry.

NoodleSoup said:

hey you

How Horrible! How sad! What a Traumatic Experience and Nightmare for the Parents. I wouldn't wanna see that on television at ALL!

althom said:

I know...it's so horrible that it does seem unreal.

Good God, I don't think I'd ever EVER get over that

bluesbaby said:

Yes it is, I'm just saying don't just feel for the parents. I'm not debating abortion.

how tramatic just an abortion would be let alone something like this