Baby Survives Amazingly.

Indian baby survives birth through train toilet

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1580183/Indian-baby-survives-birth-through-train-toilet.html

 

2:01PM GMT 28 Feb 2008

A premature baby has survived falling from the toilet of a moving train just moments after her early birth.

The child's mother, an Indian woman called Bhuri, was travelling on an overnight train near Ahmadabad, in the state of Gujarat in west India when she suddenly and unexpectedly gave birth.

The as-yet-unnamed child was found two hours later, cold but apparently unhurt.

According to her brother-in-law Arjun Kumar, she went to the toilet shortly before midnight and unexpectedly gave birth, eight to ten weeks short of term.

Toilets on Indian trains are usually simple holes through to the tracks, and the baby - who weighs barely 3lb - was small enough to slip straight through.

"She fell unconscious and the baby fell through the toilet," said Mr Kumar. "Two stations later, we knocked at the door.

"When we asked her about what happened, she said the baby had fallen through onto the tracks," he went on.

After finding Bhuri, relatives pulled the emergency alarm in the train and informed officials.

In the ensuing search, a guard at one of the stations they had passed found the child on the tracks.

"She was on the rail track for almost two hours," said Dr. Gautam Jain, a paediatrician at Rajasthan Hospital, Ahmadabad, where mother and baby were taken.

"We do not expect such children to survive."

The child's mother expressed her shock at events. "My delivery was so sudden," she said.

"I did not even realise that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet."  

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