Premature newborn lives after falling from train

[joeybee12]

Source: MSNBC

AHMADABAD, India - A newborn baby girl fell through the toilet in a moving train and onto the tracks moments after her mother prematurely gave birth, surviving nearly two hours before being found, relatives said Thursday.

The child's mother, who uses the single name Bhuri, was traveling with relatives on an overnight train when she went to the bathroom shortly before midnight Tuesday and unexpectedly gave birth to a baby girl, said Arjun Kumar, her brother-in-law.

"Later, she fell unconscious and the baby fell through the toilet," he continued. "Two stations later, we knocked at the door." Bhuri opened the door, soaked in blood.




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Let's have some good thoughts for this little one!

[DS1]

1. she was getting rid of it

[joeybee12]

2. Regardless...let's hope the baby does well...n/t

[LostinVA]

13. Yep

[mopinko]

17. meh. maybe

you could be right. i almost dropped one in the toilet, tho. it is not that uncommon. if it is positioned right, you do feel like you have to go.

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Bhuri was probably on hold, waiting for tech support.

[ReadTomPaine]

4. For the curious here are some photos of train toilets in India..

From the related GD thread here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=2936480&mesg_id=2936480

[THUNDER HANDS]

6. I'd hold it

[wisteria]

5. My heart goes out to that little baby girl. I pray she will be just fine.

She has already proved she has a strong will to live.

[joeybee12]

10. Yeah, isn't it amazing that some people...even from birth...show

such a strong will? Good for her.

[lonestarnot]

7. Poor little thing and poor Mom. Poor Indian people.

:cry:

[joeybee12]

11. An all-around awful situation...

...but if the baby managed to make it this far, she's got a strong will to keep going.

[barb162]

8. I hate to bring up something technical here, but an umbilical cord

was there and I wonder how the baby ended up on the tracks while still attached to the cord and the mother.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

9. Abortion in India: Selecting by Gender

Interesting article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/19/AR2006051901219.html

[DS1]

16. exactly

this whole story is bullshit. she delivered the baby, cut the cord, and dumped it. there's no "accident" here.

[Tesha]

12. Here's another picture from SFGate's Day-In-Pictures...

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/dayinpictures?f=/g/a/2008/02/28/dip.DTL

Born prematurely in the toilet of a moving train, the tiny daughter
of Bhuri (left) survived for nearly two hours after she fell through
the commode and onto the tracks. The newborn was taken to the
neo-natal intensive care unit at Rajasthan Hospital in Ahmadabad,
India.

[Occulus]

14. They both look so happy n/t

[joeybee12]

15. Nurse Ratchett?

The baby looks good, though.