woman performs own cesarean...

[xemmax]

wow, just, wow.....

https://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2001943916_caesarean01.html

RIO TALEA, Mexico — Alone in her one-room cabin high in the mountains of southern Mexico, Ines Ramirez Perez felt the pounding pains of a child insistent on entering the world.

Three years earlier, she had given birth to a dead baby girl. As her labor intensified, so did her concern for this unborn child.

The sun had set hours earlier. The nearest clinic was more than 50 miles away over rough terrain and inhospitable roads, and her husband, her only assistant during a half-dozen previous births, was drinking at a cantina. She had no phone and neither did the cantina.

So at midnight, after 12 hours of constant pain, the petite, 40-year-old mother of six sat down on a low wooden bench. She took several gulps from a bottle of rubbing alcohol, grabbed the 6-inch knife she used for butchering animals and pointed it at her belly.

And then she began to cut.

Under the light of a single dim bulb, Ramirez sawed through skin, fat and muscle before reaching inside her uterus and pulling out her baby boy. She says she cut his umbilical cord with a pair of scissors, then passed out.

 

[littlestar85]

Oh my goodness!! That's mind-blowing!

 

[~RedLily~]

omg

 

[Kelloggz187]

xx

 

[aliss]

Brutal eh? Thank goodness she was an 'experienced' mother already

Mine was one of those babies that would have died in labour had it not been for modern science. It's scary to think what many women around the world still go through these days, and in the past, when things went terribly wrong in birth. We are SO blessed.

 

[Mrs Dot]

scary and very brave. I hope they make it

 

[happigail]

There ya go, proof we really will do anything for our kids!

 

[JayeD]

Wow that's nuts!! I'm glad they both survived.

 

[xemmax]

you're right aliss, we really are blessed. thank goodness you were well looked after and your LO is here safe and well

she was sterilised after this, thank goodness. not sure how strong her uterus would be after her "surgery".

 

[Windmills]

That's crazy. I can't even imagine what was going through that poor womans head!

 

[littleone2010]

omg. Makes me feel lucky- this woman is hard as nails! x

 

[Lost_Plot]

That was March 5, 2000

He'll be nearly 11 now

 

[amygwen]

WHATTTTTTTT!
Oh my god how scary

 

[vaniilla]

thats so mad, its also very inspiring what she was willing to go through for her child

 

[9babiesgone]

wow amazing!

 

[sweetlullaby]

Wow!!!! That's just wow!!

 

[izzys_girl]

wow

 

[Princess86]

OMG!!!!!

 

[KamKol]

why was she up in the mountains alone while heavily pregnant though?

 

[Sarah10]

ouch!