Posted
4/07/2004 05:53:00 PM
by Douglas
What an incredible story. Any woman that can give herself her own
C-section is definitely not a woman to mess with.
A woman in Mexico gave birth to a healthy baby boy after performing a Cesarean section on herself with a kitchen knife, doctors said Tuesday.
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 D.r R.F. Valle, of the Dr. Manuel Velasco Suarez Hospital in San Pablo, Mexico.
I know you gotta do what you gotta do, but I think it would take a bit more than a few shots of tequila to cut your own belly open with a kitchen knife. Then again, in America, a couple shots of tequila is the
cause of most pregnancies.