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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (83)	12/20/2004 3:18:12 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 691

I think so: Here is a different case that is kinda cool... Woman does own C-section; baby fine April 8, 2004 BY LINDSEY TANNER ASSOCIATED PRESS CHICAGO -- A 40-year-old woman in Mexico cut open her womb with a knife and delivered a healthy baby boy in her rural home when problems developed during labor, doctors reported Wednesday in a medical journal. The woman and her son, her ninth child, both survived despite an eight-hour car ride to the nearest hospital after the procedure and a wait of several hours once she got there, said coauthor Dr. Rafael Valle, a Northwestern University obstetrician. The report about the incident -- which took place two years ago -- appears in the latest issue of the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics. The woman, who was not named, lived in a dirt-floor house with no electricity or running water and had previously lost a baby during childbirth, the authors said. She was alone when she went into labor, and fearing the same thing would happen when it appeared the childbirth process was not going well, she decided to perform the crude cesarean section. She first drank three small glasses of hard liquor to numb the pain, he said. "Rather than experience fetal death in utero again, she used her skills at slaughtering animals," the report said. "Apparently, she did not bleed excessively and asked one of her children to call a local nurse for help before she lost consciousness." The nurse stitched up the woman's abdomen with an ordinary needle and thread, and the mother and baby were taken to a hospital in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. The authors of the report said there are other cases of women attempting the same thing, but none they could find in which the mother and child survived. freep.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (83)	12/20/2004 3:19:49 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 691

Kidnapped newborn may be in Kansas Skidmore, MO, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Authorities in Nodaway County, Mo., are awaiting DNA results to find out if a newborn girl in Kansas is the kidnapped child of a slain Missouri woman. Bobbi Jo Stinnett was strangled Thursday in her home in the small northwest Missouri town of Skidmore, 100 miles northwest of Kansas City. Stinnett, 23, was eight months pregnant and the fetus had been cut from her womb. Authorities issued an Amber Alert for the newborn who was driven away in a red, two-door hatchback. Investigators received a tip that led them to a baby girl in Kansas Friday, WLS-TV, Chicago, said. "The tip is one of those that we thought we really needed to track down and we went after that one," said Nodaway County Sheriff Ben Espey. "We really focused on that hard." Two people were being questioned. Espey said the baby appeared healthy although it may be premature. washingtontimes.com