Indian baby survives birth through train toilet
A local guard spotted the newborn crying on the tracks and informed the police
An Indian baby survived a shocking birth when he slipped down a train toilet and landed on railway tracks just moments after his mother delivered him, police said Tuesday.
The 22-year-old woman fainted in the tiny toilet cubicle on Monday after giving birth on the train, which had briefly halted before reaching Hanumangarh station in western Rajasthan state.
“The woman ... felt acute labor pain, so she went to the toilet to relieve herself and gave birth to a baby boy who slipped down through the toilet bowl and fell on the tracks,” senior railway police official Subhash Vishnoi told AFP by phone.
Most Indian trains have western-style and squat toilets with filthy chutes that empty directly onto the tracks.
The train had already left for Hanumangarh by the time the woman’s family members found her unconscious in the toilet.
A local guard spotted the newborn crying on the tracks and informed the police, who admitted the baby to a nearby hospital.
“When the woman and her husband found their newborn alive and safe, they were very happy,” another police official Ram Singh said.
“They had not expected that the newborn would be alive.”
-
Six-day-old baby has youngest U.S. heart transplant
Baby Oliver Crawford underwent the operation at Phoenix Children's Hospital in Arizona after being born seven weeks ahead of schedule with a heart defect Variety -
Britain votes to allow world’s first ‘three-parent’ IVF babies
Parliament voted on the technique, called mitochondrial donation Healthy Living -
Video shows blind mother seeing baby for first time
The video posted to YouTube shows 29-year-old Kathy Beitz seeing her newborn boy with the aid of a bulky black headset Variety -
Cat saves abandoned baby from freezing in Russia
The cat, named Masha, found the baby in a box but decided to climb into the container to keep the infant warm Variety