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Mexican Woman Performs Own Caesarean to Save Baby
Women from Rural Region Delivers Healthy Boy With Aid of Kitchen Knife, Liquor

LONDON (April 6) - 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 labour 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.


04/06/04 13:18 ET

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