Just read this "woman does own C-section"

newgrad2004 · Apr 9, 2004

What do you think they did before anestesia...

I say more power to her and thank god she didnt die. But I know I couldnt have done it. Maybe she sent the kid before she did it. But how on earth would you know or see what you were doing. Geez

But she saved her kids life, and hopefully is getting the health care she needs.

hock1 · Apr 9, 2004

Does this shock you? My mouth is still open.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4677630/[/quote]
Did she survive? I'd kinda think if one lived rural she'd bleed to death before getting to a hospital?

allnurses Guide · Apr 9, 2004

Wasn't there a story about a man who had to saw his arm off because it was lodged between two rocks and he was stuck? And another about a guy cutting his own leg off after a logging accident?

Human beings are amazing . . . .

steph

Brownms46 · Apr 9, 2004

I found a little different version of this story:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,116460,00.html

It seems the woman didn't call the nurse in the beginning, as she was alone when labor began.

Someone on the ABC forum found the following in a hard copy of the Journal:

International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics

Volume 84, Issue 3 , March 2004, Pages 287-290

Case report

Self-inflicted cesarean section with maternal and fetal survival

A. Molina-Sosa a, H. Galvan-Espinosa a, J. Gabriel-Guzman a and R. F. Valle , , b

a Hospital General Dr. Manuel Velasco Suarez, San Pablo, Huixtepec, Zimatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico

b Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, IL, USA

Received 30 May 2003; Revised 4 August 2003; accepted 11 August 2003. Available online 9 December 2003.

Abstract

An unusual case of self-inflicted cesarean section with maternal and child survival is presented. No similar event was found in an Internet literature search. Because of a lack of medical assistance and a history of fetal death in utero, a 40-year-old multiparous woman unable to deliver herself alone lady partslly sliced her abdomen and uterus and delivered her child. She was transferred to a hospital where she underwent repair of the incisions and had to remain hospitalized. Mother and child survived the event. Unusual and extraordinary measures to preserve their offspring sometimes moves women to extreme decisions endangering their own lives. Social, educational, and health measures should be instituted all over the world, particularly in rural areas of developing countries, to avoid such extreme events.

In the article, it says she used her skill at slaughtering animals, and it also had photos of her afterwards.

I guess you never know what a person will do to save their child.:).

TinyNurse, RN · Apr 18, 2004

WOW had a homebirth myself>...........but this is totally amazing. hope she gets the help she needs. xo jen

nekhismom · Apr 18, 2004

I think it is totally amazing. I'm very surprised at her.