Is it true that Jackie Chan's mother carried him for 12 months?

The story is widespread that the mother of a famous actor was pregnant with him for 12 months. We decided to check if this amazing fact is reliable from the biography of the star.

That Jackie Chan Spent In the womb Mother incredible 12 months and Weighed at birth more than 5 kg, regularly write Media. This amazing The fact is often It appears And in different ones biographies actor. Users forums constantly set questionhow it is Maybeat the same time in the same branches you can meet Commentstelling about long pregnancies that the authors of the replicas Observing Friends and acquaintances.

About the unusually long pregnancy of his mother Jackie Chan told In an interview with 2010. The British TV presenter Jonathan Ross asked the actor whether it was true that he was in the womb for 12 months. “Yes, I was just a huge child, and my parents were too poor to pay doctors,” Chan said.

In order to figure out how believable such messages must first understand that science knows about the length of human pregnancy. She is normal It lasts About ten lunar months, each of which is 28 days, that is, 280 days, or 40 weeks. Since the month of the calendar is usually different from the lunar (except February), in terms of the calendar of the child, the child takes a little more than nine months. Doctors count these 280 days from the first day of the last cycle, calculating the so -called obstetric period of pregnancy. Since implantation of fertilized eggs is happening On average, five to seven days after sexual intercourse itself, and ovulation on average occurs on the 14th day of the cycle, the obstetric period is larger than the real (that is, the one that the woman herself can calculate, if he knows exactly when the sexual intercourse that led to pregnancy has occurred) for two weeks.

It is according to obstetric weeks that doctors calculate the estimated date of childbirth (PDR). However, only 4% of babies are born on this day. By statistics, in 70% of primary birth most often they occur at the 41st and 42nd weeks of gestation, while the second and subsequent ones are usually a little earlier than PDR, at the 38th or 39th week. Pregnancy not completed by childbirth at the 42nd week, called Crossed, childbirth - belated, and the child - overripe. Overstraining of pregnancy is a fairly common problem: by statistics The Center for Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, it faces from 0.8 to 10% of women.

To overstrain can bring A number of factors: later the puberty of the expectant mother and impaired menstrual function, various endocrine disorders and diseases of the kidneys and liver, complications of pregnancy itself. This pathology also more often Found In women whose first birth occurred over 30 years old and pregnant by a boy. Overstraining is dangerous for the life of both the mother and the fetus. In particular, overripe babies have a delay in growth and development of subcutaneous fat, glucose and bilirubin metabolism, nails, skin and umbilical cord with meconium (original feces), also when swallowing perimony with moconia with moconium, maconial aspiration can begin, threatening with heavy respiratory failure. Therefore, doctors during overstraining strongly recommend that pregnant women hospitalize and consider the issue of artificial tribulation. 

Of the factors contributing to overstraining, Jackie Chan and his mother can reliably distinguish only one - the male floor of the fetus. This was not the first pregnancy of a woman, the actor There is The senior sisters - the first birth of the Chan's mother happened exactly earlier than 30 years. There is no information about the concomitant diseases of the woman and the features of the course of pregnancy in open sources.

The publications about the deadline for bearing Jackie Chan usually talk about 12 months, or almost 12 months (for example, in the second case it is understood 11 months and two or three weeks). Thus, the future actor was supposed to be in the womb from 50 to 52 weeks, or at least 350 days. In fact, science recorded pregnancy, which lasts even more than this period. For example, in 1955, the Zajra Moroccan Abutalib gave birth to at home for 48 hours, and then went to the hospital for the operation of Cesarean section. However, seeing the death of one of the women in labor there, the woman escaped from the hospital. A few days later, the birth pain ceased, and the child never was born. Only after 46 years, when the doctors suspected the ovarian tumor from Abutalib, the patient decided to trust the doctors. They found in her abdominal cavity a fully formed but literally petrified baby. In a scientific, such calcified remains of unborn children are called Litopedions. Zahra Abutalib is not the only woman who wore pregnancy for so long, science knows about at least 330 cases of Lithopedion. However, in all these cases, the child did not survive with prolonged pregnancy.

There are two candidates for women with the longest pregnancy, ending with the birth of a living child. First - American Bula Hunter, who brought the child for 375 days, that is, more than 12 months. In confirmation of incredibly long bearing doctors of the girl Provided Her pregnancy test carried out in March 1944 (her last menstruation was in February), as well as data on the abnormal development of the fetus. Only six months later, the future mother felt the first tremors, while this is usually the 16-18th week. Doctors discovered the fetal heartbeat in September, and with normal development they had to fix it in July. As a result, transferring pregnancy for almost 100 days, Hunter gave birth to a healthy girl. Her attending physician suggests that the development of the fetus for some reason stopped, and then continued again. However, skeptics believe that perhaps Hunter suffered an early miscarriage and did not notice him, and then became pregnant again. The doctors who observed the woman reject this hypothesis.

The second candidate is the Chinese woman Van Shi, who allegedly nurtured a child of 17 months. About her They wrote numerous Mediaincluding Russian language. The woman stated that she became pregnant in February 2015, the child was to be born in November, and instead was born in the next August. Unlike Hunter, Van Shi, for most of his pregnancy, did not observe the doctors, but having made a sensational statement, Refused Pass the ultrasound diagnostics to confirm your words. Therefore, her record is not seriously considered by doctors.

Along with an unnecessary miscarriage and a new pregnancy, the irregular cycle of a woman can lead to a wrong calculation of pregnancy. For example, she considers the first day of the last cycle on January 1, therefore, expects the appearance of a child in mid -September. And although menstruation did not happen in February, it is still not pregnant. The fertilization and conception occurred later, at the end of March, and the woman took the incident before this menstruation during the bleeding during the implantation of the placenta (until the 20th week 20-30% of women collide With bleeding from the vagina). Thus, in September, she will begin to expect childbirth, and in October she will decide that her pregnancy has been going on for more than nine months. Having given birth in December, on the time, conceived at the end of March, she may calculate that she had nurtured him for almost 12 months. 

Such an explanation of allegedly 12-month pregnancy looks much more logical, especially taking into account the fact that the family of Jackie Chan was poor and was unlikely to afford regular examinations of doctors. Moreover, the actor’s mothers conducted a cesarean section - most likely, if the doctors had evidence of such a long pregnancy of the patient, they would share an interesting case with colleagues and the scientific community, and such publications could not be detected.

But the huge weight of the actor at birth - 5.4 kg - is by no means a record. MacroSomia The fruit is considered to be over 4 kg. Today 8-10% of children They are born With this pathology. Large fruit - most often indication to Kesarev section, however some Women, first of all themselves Different outstanding physical parameters, choose natural birth and cope with them. Jackie Chan in weight at birth is by no means a record holder. Corresponding entry in the Guinness Book of Records belongs Italian Karmelina Fedole and her son, whose birth weight was 10.2 kg.

Thus, most likely, Jackie Chan’s mother incorrectly calculated the date of her birth and therefore was sincerely mistaken, believing that she had her son for 12 months. Otherwise, the doctor who performed her Caesarean would have reported such a rare medical phenomenon to his colleagues and in scientific magazines.

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Most likely not true

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