Pregnant Woman Uses Train Toilet, Baby Slips Out

Pregnant Woman Uses Train Toilet, Baby Slips Out

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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."

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"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

I couldn't believe it just slipped down the hole. Then I read.

Most toilets on Indian trains are filthy chutes emptying directly onto the tracks.

And realized this was disgusting. Mother gives birth while crapping (I presume because the force) and doesn't realize the baby fell through the hole and onto the tracks outside? How did the umbilical chord break? Did she not feel that?

So many questions. I am glad everyone is safe. Yikes, what a story.

AAC




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This one I can understand. Not everyone experiences hours of labor, and to a first time mother well I guess it could feel like you needed to take a dump. It is just relief to know that this child is going to be ok and hey mom will have an intresting story to tell her future boyfriends.

Excuse me if I find this extremely hard to believe.
Having given birth 8 times myself, there is no possible way she didn't feel it.
Something is fishy here.
Especially if this is the first time she has ever delivered. Even premature, the baby would have been large enough to "notice"..unless she thought she was passing a grapefruit.
UNREAL.
I would truly question whether she should even be allowed to keep the child.
A little more investigating needed there, IMHO.
Jovi..true enough that not everyone has Hours and hours of labour...But she obviously knew she was pregnant and trust me..you do feel the difference between having a bowel movement and having a baby.
My first labour was 6 hours...last one..3hours...
She must have had some clue...

There are some incredibly ignorant people out there. I find it difficult to believe she didn't notice she'd given birth even if it was her first delivery.
When birth control pills became prevalent, we were handing them out with instructions. One woman came back pregnant and madder than hell about it. She'd been taking her pills religiously and never missed a day. Upon further questioning, it turns out she wasn't swallowing them. LOL. She knew how babies got in so that's where the pills went. AHAHAHAHA. That was in this country. I imagine further investigation and a lot more education are in order for this case and, yes, she should have noticed the placenta falling out. That usually takes place about 20 minutes AFTER you give birth. I weep for our species.

Originally posted by whitewave
There are some incredibly ignorant people out there. I find it difficult to believe she didn't notice she'd given birth even if it was her first delivery.
When birth control pills became prevalent, we were handing them out with instructions. One woman came back pregnant and madder than hell about it. She'd been taking her pills religiously and never missed a day. Upon further questioning, it turns out she wasn't swallowing them. LOL. She knew how babies got in so that's where the pills went. AHAHAHAHA. That was in this country. I imagine further investigation and a lot more education are in order for this case and, yes, she should have noticed the placenta falling out. That usually takes place about 20 minutes AFTER you give birth. I weep for our species.

Whitewave that is completely unreal...
>Walking away shaking my head...<
AD

After looking at the article again, in the process of this she fainted and upon waking a few minutes later realized something was amiss. I still would have to give her a pass on this one it isn't like she went hours or days after it happened as soon as she realized something was amiss went to get help.

Originally posted by Jovi1
After looking at the article again, in the process of this she fainted and upon waking a few minutes later realized something was amiss. I still would have to give her a pass on this one it isn't like she went hours or days after it happened as soon as she realized something was amiss went to get help.

Ok then..but I'm still iffy on it. Yes I said..iffy.

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Oh AD, 6 hours you are so lucky. OMG. My first labor was 3 very, very long intense days. Not hours but days. Very, Very hard no sleep in pain labor. Finally, they took him by c-section, only because we were both dying. Another, lady giving birth at the same hospital as me did die. Get this it was a Women and Children's hospital as well. I never went back to that hospital for me again. My son's shoulders were too big to pass through me. He only weighed 7 pds.

For my second child I choose a great doctor and different hospital. I actually went around and interviewed different doctors to see which one I wanted. This doctor told me I cannot give birth the normal way. My bones are too small and won't let a baby come out. He took way better care of me. He put me to sleep for "minnie" and my 3rd child.

I agree this lady had too know she was giving birth. IDK. Maybe she was just scared though. Still she should be checked out to see if she's fit to be a mother. Surely, she had to know she was giving birth.

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I agree Shar..Iam very lucky.
3 days? My god..any more than 12 hours and I would have DEMANDED a C section.

Not really the thread to share birth stories, but my youngest son.. Baby #7,
his shoulders were too big for me as well, and it was touch and go..
The little bugger weighed in at nine pounds, and Iam very small.
He was big for me.

As for the thread article...I just hope the mother is interviewed at great length before she is allowed to take this baby home. Might I add that thank goodness the baby is alright and very lucky to have survived.

My housekeeper gave birth to a healthy little girl in my bath tub.

The whole process took less than half an hour and there didn't seem to be much pain. Sure, it wasn't her first child, and she did have the hips for child bearing, but I can see how this sort of incident in India could happen.
Some women can push out a kid without blinking an eye, especially if the baby is small and the woman large.

She did react fairly quickly because they stopped the train and ran back on the tracks to pick the baby out of the poo, so I don't doubt the story at all.

I've even heard of women presenting at Emerg. complaining of abdominal pains and they find out they're in labor when they didn't even know they were pregnant. Granted most cases like that occur in very obese women, but still, strange things happen.


There's an incredible amount of diversity in human physiology.

I have this image in my head of a baby being dragged behind a train by its cord, bouncing off the occasional tie.

Boing, boing, boing.

Let's cut the woman a little slack, to be quite honest, I almost delivered my twins on a hospital toilet, I'd been in labor only about 2 hours and thought that I needed to relieve myself, but when the nurse noticed that I was in there she said I was ready to push, and it didn't take but half an hour more for them to come out. They were my first ones, too. I'm just glad that the baby is okay!

I think boys are preferred in India, so my guess would be she was hoping for the girl to be dead when found and she wouldn't be held accountable for it.