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| Mexican Woman Performs Own Caesarian to Save Baby |
| 2004-04-09 |
| This is one tough mamasita! A woman in Mexico gave birth to a healthy baby boy after performing a Caesarian section on herself with a kitchen knife, doctors said Tuesday. Yikes! The unidentified 40-year-old woman, who lived in a rural area without electricity, running water or sanitation and was an eight-hour drive from the nearest hospital, performed the operation when she could not deliver the baby naturally. She had lost a previous baby due to labor complications. "She took three small glasses of hard liquor and, using a kitchen knife, sliced her abdomen in three attempts ... and delivered a male infant that breathed immediately and cried," said Dr R.F. Valle, of the Dr. Manuel Velasco Suarez Hospital in San Pablo, Mexico. Three small glasses of hard liquor? I don’t think I could do this if you poured a distillery down my throat. Valle recounted the event in a report in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. Before losing consciousness, the woman told one of her children to call a local nurse for help. After the nurse stitched the wound with a sewing needle and cotton thread, the mother and baby were transferred and treated by Valle and his colleagues at the nearest hospital. "This case represents an unusual and extraordinary decision by a women in labor who, unable to deliver herself spontaneously, and with no medical help or resources, decided to perform a Caesarian section upon herself," Valle said. Well, I got a nasty paper cut today. It really hurt. |
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #7 Before losing consciousness, the woman told one of her children to call a local nurse for help. im thinking maybe she shuld have try that first. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2004-04-09 1:16:31 PM |
| #6 "Ooooh! That's gotta hurt!" |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-04-09 11:01:40 AM |
| #5 As soon as she gets back on her feet - sign her up!! We could use a woman w/that kind of grit. F*cking hard core. Hope they take good care of her and the nino. |
| Posted by: Jarhead 2004-04-09 9:13:10 AM |
| #4 I don’t think I could do this if you poured a distillery down my throat Since I am male I doubt any quantity of liquor would allow me to deliver a baby. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-04-09 3:57:50 AM |
| #3 tu3031: And they'd all be right. :-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-04-09 1:30:09 AM |
| #2 You sound like my wife. And my sisters. And my mother. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2004-04-09 12:20:20 AM |
| #1 I don’t think I could do this if you poured a distillery down my throat. Men are such wusses. :-) |
| Posted by: Steve White 2004-04-09 12:17:50 AM |