Pregnant woman uses train toilet, baby slips out
Thu Feb 28, 2008 4:31pm EST
Indian baby survives toilet birth
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - 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."
Kalbi, a 33-year-old woman from a village in Rajasthan, fainted on the
toilet seat after the birth for a few minutes before waking up and
alerting her family.
"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.
Most toilets on Indian trains are filthy chutes emptying directly onto
the tracks.
(Reporting by Rupam Jain Nair; Editing by Jonathan Allen and Sugita
Katyal)
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