True story: Performs a self-cesarean section to save her baby

That’s an incredible story knows no precedent in the scientific literature.

Mother performs cesarean section to save her baby

The year is 2003. In this remote Mexican countryside, the first hospital is 80 km away. But Ines Ramirez Perez, 40 years old and mother of six, has been having contractions for more than 12 hours and believes that something is wrong and her baby has to come out of her womb as quickly as possible.

Traumatized by a previous pregnancy in which her child died in utero, she refuses to go through the same thing again and grabs a kitchen knife. She swallows a few sips of strong alcohol, lies down on a wooden bench and cuts the 17cm wide lower part of her stomach. She manages to nick her uterus, takes the baby out, cuts the cord and passes out from the pain.

One of her sons will then find her blood-soaked and unconscious, alert a village nurse who will stitch up the scar, and she will be quickly taken to the nearest hospital where she will be treated and survive her C-section. section, just like her son.

Second Future sciences who reported this story, the children’s father could not be contacted at the village bistro.

This story, as incredible as it is sad, dramatically illustrates the extent to which, according to the National Library of Medicine, “ social, health and educational measures must be put in place around the world, especially in rural areas of developing countries, to avoid such extreme events “.

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