Got this from CNN's page.....

Tuesday, April 6, 2004

Mexico
(Reuters) -- A pregnant woman in Mexico gave birth to a healthy baby boy after performing a caesarean section on herself with a kitchen knife, doctors said on Tuesday.

It is thought to be the first known case of a self-inflicted caesarean in which both the mother and baby survived.

The unidentified 40-year-old, who lived in a rural area without electricity, running water or sanitation that 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.

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 labour who, unable to deliver herself spontaneously, and with no medical help or resources, decided to perform a caesarean section upon herself," Valle said.

He added that a mother's instinct to save her child can move a woman to perform extraordinary acts but said it would not have been necessary if adequate medical care had been available.



That's just sad.

!!!!!

Ouch!!!!

This woman is a hero!!

When there are so many women in this world who savagely murder their children in the name of God and many other women who spit out babies left and right, don't even know who the father is and then give the baby to their mother or someone else to raise, this story is amazing and this women should be given a medal for bravery. Every mother should go to the ends of the earth to save their child, but unfortunately there are way too many that don't deserve to be a mother. I applaud this woman for not letting anything or anyone stop her from saving her baby's life, even if it meant her own life.

Wow!

that woman is amazing and apparently knows a thing or two about her own anatomy. good for her. it is sad that adequate medical care wasn't available to her but her ability to think clearly and make the most out of the resources available to her shows what an intelligent woman she is. i don't know what i would have done in that situation.

minneapolisgenius said:

Not sad...Beautiful!!!!

THE POWER OF WOMEN amazes me.... What a beatiful and powerful storry..

sosgemini said:

true nothing can compare to
the power of a woman
if the future of our species relied on men
we would have been extinct
a fucking long time ago

I am surprised the nurse stitched the wound. I think she would be bleeding quite a lot.

WOW WOW WOW! That took some serious guts. Imagine cutting yourself open.

sosgemini said:

I meant sad that it had to happen in the first place because there wasn't adequate medical care available. Unfortunately, that is the case in too many places to mention.

wow. GOOD for her.

I wonder if she drew an outline on her belly first.

When my aunt had her last child, the baby was in distress and the heartbeat stopped when she had contractions. Turns out that the cord was wrapped around his neck and the contractions. Well when the heartbeat stopped, the doctors said they had to go in or the baby could die. So they started the c-section.....but the pain medication hadn't had enough time to take effect. So she felt the c-section!!!!! YIKES

whoa. rock the hell on, man.

I think in the next stages of evolution women should have perforated stomachs.

sinisterpentatonic said:

omg...a little dashed line that appears when we get pregnant....

amazing!

What an amazingly brave woman.

That is fucking awesome. More power to the woman.

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

Oh







my







GOD!