Kuala Lampur, Sept. 18 -- A woman from Zhongshan in South China's Guangdong Province inserted a metal spring into her vagina thinking it would work as a birth control device.

According to Uniland, the unnamed mother-of-three left the object inside her body for approximately six months, hoping the five-centimetre spring would act as an intrauterine device (IUD), commonly known as the coil, to prevent her from getting pregnant.

For the uninitiated, IUD is a small, often T-shaped birth control device that is inserted into a woman's uterus to prevent pregnancy.

But for the 31-year-old woman, her unique self-made method did not work as she arrived at the Minzhong Hospital heavily pregnant and requesting an abortion.

Only when doctors went ...