There was an article in the paper about this today: the baby has come home.

See this B.M News Wire for a very similar occurrence back in 2005. Perhaps restrooms on Indian trains ought to be officially recognized as birthing clinics.

Babies are usually born head first. I can't imagine that baby ever being normal after its head slammed onto the tracks from a squatter going 70 miles/hour.

Toilets that empty directly onto tracks every day...ugh. It must really suck to be a hobo in India.

Bouncing baby...your headline made me laugh. Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?

What a way to come into the world: face first into a railroad tie.

My hopes and thoughts to the child, the parents and the family.
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Dodger, I wrote the title on purpose. I figured since the little girl lived, it was safe to make a little joke.

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Any indication whether she knew she was about to give birth, or whether she really thought she was simply delivering a stubborn turd? If the baby emerged unintentionally, that's one thing; it's quite another if she meant to do that.

The witnesses said she was extremely worried about the baby.

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Wow! Strong kid!

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My god! What I want to know is, how did the baby get in the toilet? That could only happen if she gave birth with her cervix above the toilet. Does anyone collapse on the toilet and give birth to anything other than a log?

Hoyls, you are absolutely correct that the mother's cervix was above the toilet. I don't have one of my own, but I do possess enough rudimentary anatomical knowledge to know the cervix is inside the vagina (or hoo-ha, should you prefer the medical term). When a woman sets herself upon the throne, guess what's looking down into the bowl besides her brown eye?

Common knowledge, really. I'm curious why you didn't know.

His girlfriend doesn't give anatomy lessons?

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i saw this on some news website a couple of weeks ago... what i wondered then and still wonder now is how the umbilical came to be severed? did it just rip when the living turd came tumbling out?

Good question. Or if the placenta just ripped out. She'd hemorrhage I'd imagine, if that happened. Or, and this is far out there, maybe the cord wrapped around itself in such a way as to pinch itself, and just fell in two. Much like castrating a bull with a rubber band. But the baby would have suffocated before being born, then..

I believe foul play is in play here...

Poonanza, here are the facts as told to me by a truck driver in Virginia. He read it in the Enquirer. The baby fell out the hole and got wedged against one of the rr ties. The mother immediately felt something tugging at her abdomen. Suddenly she was yanked downward and through the toilet hole. She landed on the tracks with a painful stretching feeling on her innards. All of a sudden, the baby came flying at her from down the tracks at great speed. She reached up and caught the baby (cord intact, but a little stretched). She called 911 from her cell phone, and the rest is history. No foul play, just facts.

Pardon me for appearing ignorant.
I meant Hindi. I'm aware that many India Indians are Hindu and speak Hindi. My life's boundaries appear to be the size of the puck mark left in a terd after a corn kernel lifted upon departure into a clean white porceline purgatory.

The toilet seat would be ideal for birthin' a baby, except for what's right under it. Birthing centers staffed by midwives have birthing stools that look like a toilet seat with an open front mounted on a stand so that the midwife can reach under and catch the baby.

I guess some of the youngsters here have not taken a train trip because the thing that always got all of us laughing was the sign above the toilet, "Do Not Flush While Train Is In The Station." Everyone knew where the buck stopped when the trap door opened. Every kid I know turned around and watched what happened when the train toilet "flushed". After the first kid told everyone about the bottom of the bowl opening up so that you could watch the road bed, everyone had to make a trip to see for himself.

Wild as this story is, what about the two stories a couple of weeks ago where 14 year old girls delivered near full term babies, one in an airplane toilet and one in the rest room at school? The baby in the airplane was stillborn, but the baby born at school died because the mother tried to flush it. How did these girls manage to conceal a pregnancy and how the hell did they manage to get through labor and delivery without making noise and attracting attention?

I have a comment somewhere else on this site that discusses my own evil deed with an old-fashioned train toilet when I was a kid. Let's just say, the attendants standing on the walkway weren't too happy with this mystery flusher.

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PD, again.... great work, and attention to detail.

SP, you make me giggle, which sets off my IBS, ergo I am at a juctsapose, read and poop, or not read, (no giggle) and not poop,.

Shit, another call to my therapisst.

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