Friday, February 29, 2008

Baby Birth Bizzare

Came across some really weird stuff in the papers today.
The first one was :


Pregnant woman gives birth while hanging
Reuters
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:07 IST
PORT MORESBY: A Papua New Guinea woman gave birth prematurely as she struggled to free herself from a hangman's noose after villagers lynched her and her husband believing they were involved in sorcery, local media reported.
Nolan Yekum and her husband Paul were lynched in Kilip village in the jungle-clad western highlands two weeks ago after villagers believed they used black magic to kill a neighbour.
The villagers dragged the couple from their home and hung them from a tree and left them to die, Paul Yekum told The National newspaper on Wednesday.
"We managed to loosen the noose to get our feet on the ground ... we were able to free ourselves." he said.
"My wife, who was about seven months pregnant, delivered the baby while struggling to free herself. It was a painful experience for me and her."
For the next two weeks the couple hid with friends in other villages, but eventually decided to seek medical help at the Mount Hagen Hospital.
The couple, speaking from the hospital, said they did not practice sorcery and did not know why their neighbour died.
Hospital staff said the couple's baby girl and her mother were doing fine after they were admitted last Saturday.
Black magic is widespread in the South Pacific nation where most of the 5.1 million population live subsistence lives. Women suspected of being witches are often hanged or burnt to death.


And the second one being :

Pregnant Indian uses train toilet, baby slips out
Thu Feb 28, 2008 6:16pm IST

Pregnant Indian uses train toilet, baby slips out
AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) -

A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving 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 realise 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 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 trains are filthy chutes emptying directly onto the tracks.


WTF?!

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