Posted on 02/28/2008 3:18:32 PM PST by NormsRevenge
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday.
"My delivery was so sudden," said the Bhuri Kalbi, the mother of the infant, born two months prematurely. "I did not even realize that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet."
Kalbi, a 33-year-old woman from a village in Rajasthan, fainted on the toilet seat after the birth for a few minutes before waking up and alerting her family.
"They stopped the train and ran on the tracks to find the baby," she said, speaking from her hospital bed in the western city of Ahmedabad.
Railway staff at a nearby station were alerted and soon found the newborn girl lying uninjured on pebbles by the track. She is now in intensive care because of her premature birth, doctors said.
Most toilets on Indian trains are filthy chutes emptying directly onto the tracks.
New-born baby girl of Bhuri Kalbi, 33, is seen inside a hospital in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad February 28, 2008. The baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday. REUTERS/Amit Dave
That baby look pretty big for a premmie. And pretty healthy for all that she has already been through.
The umbilical cord just, kind of detached on its own?
Sounds like quite the sanitary railroad they got there.
Wonder how many children she already had. I’m thinking that you’ve got to be pretty ‘loose’ to drop a baby and not even realize it is happening.
Yet another reason not to walk on the railroad tracks.
I do not know...just saying that to me there are parts of the story as it has been reported that do not make sense.
Prolly more likely the placenta detached. That might have been the cause of the premature delivery as well. That’s the most likely explanation absent any other information.
But, having been to India and ridden on their trains, it is a pretty good drop to the tracks and I cannot imagine a baby surviving the fall from a moving train and landing (which would involve the baby's momentum carrying it down the tracks some distance) from that height.
Indian conductors are apparently pretty strict on the one ticket-per-passenger thing...
Kid looks angry.
Happened to a classmate of mine back in HS - and yes, it was her first. She thought she was having abdominal pain. (well, guess she was in a way), didn’t realize it was labor. Came on fast and she sat on the toilet..splash and there was her daughter. She was a bit premature, weighed not quite 6lbs.
Not that I wanted to ever have my kids on the toilet but geez, I should only have been so lucky to have labor and delivery that easy!
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