Woman uses butcher's knife for own caesarian [View All]

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By Lisa Adams

Rio Talea - Alone in her one-room cabin high in the mountains of southern Mexico, Ines Ramirez Perez felt the pounding pains of a child insistent on entering the world.

Three years earlier, she had given birth to a dead baby girl. As her labour intensified, so did her concern for this unborn child.

The sun had set hours ago. The nearest clinic was 80km away over rough terrain, and her husband, her only assistant during a half-dozen previous births, was drinking at a cantina. She had no telephone.

So at midnight, after 12 hours of constant pain, the petite, 40-year-old mother of six sat down on a low wooden bench. She took several gulps from a bottle of rubbing alcohol, grabbed the 15cm knife that she used for butchering animals and pointed it at her belly.

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I'm not into gory stories but this one has been itching inside me and just waiting to be ripped out of my mouth. I think it's the biggest conspiracy since Bush Couped the WH. How did us humans survive 160,000 years without hospitals and doctors to deliver our babies? What do we need them for? Why can't families deliver their own babies and cut out the middle man and his fees?