by Tutu Akinlabi
A newborn baby has been rescued from death or at least serious injury after its mother tried to flush it down a toilet.
The mother is said to have been unaware that she was pregnant and she only discovered after she went to the hospital to complain of stomach pains.
Unluckily however, she apparently went into labour while in the toilet and allegedly tried to flush the baby.
Daily Mail reports:
When she went to the toilet she then went into labour and gave birth. According to doctor Gao Yuwen, who was on duty, he heard someone shouting in the corridor at around 1am.
‘I dashed out, and found people gathered outside a bathroom.
‘A woman was hectically knocking the door, asking the other woman inside to open the door.’
‘She went into the bathroom and locked herself in and in a short time I heard a baby’s cries from inside and knocked on the door asking whether she was okay.
The woman had not realised she was pregnant and had gone to the hospital in China with stomach pains
Doctor Gao said: ‘I saw a baby was immersed in the toilet pan crying heavily and was still connected to her mom with an umbilical cord.’ Both mother and baby are fine.
After failing to persuade the woman to open the door a security guard broke it down. Doctor Gao says: ‘I saw a baby was immersed in the toilet pan crying heavily and was still connected to her mom with an umbilical cord.’
Both mother and baby are fine.
