[shygirl]

poor thing, having a bad day.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/newborn-baby-saved-toilet-pipe-china-080538314.html?vp=1#Aw5lcP5

[john and helen]

un real what some people will do..i guess we don't know all the facts.... but never no need to do that

[happygolucky]

That was the first thing I read and watched this morning, then saw posts about the poor kitens, then my best friend is fighting the big C and I posted a photo on my FB and all her family are commenting but not her.....I feel so  upset but on the up side, amazing that the baby lived for 2 days with nothing and cold in that pipe...not sure any animal would live without feed for so long...I did even wonder if someone accidentaly had a baby and flushed it away in a sudden panic but dare not say anything!!! 

[Lesley Silvester]

Surely it was only a couple of hours? she gave birth while on the toilet. It happened to someone I knew so it is possible.

[goosepimple]

What a bizarre story, poor little thing, quite unbelievable.
 
We were on holiday in China a few weeks back, one of the guides said that the penalties for having a second child were really horrendous financially taking years and years to recover and that in fact most Chinese people are supportive of the one child thing as they can see the population is huge.
 
They are allowed 2 children if the first is disabled or if you are a farmer and need more slaves kids to help you with the land.

[happygolucky]

apparently she did give birth on the toilet and was there while they cut the baby out the pipe at he flats........horrid...and hey did say 2 days......hard to understand how the little baby felt.....

[doganjo]

Baby wouldn't have known any different so wouldn't have 'felt' anything,.  Just glad they got it out alive.  I didn't watch the video, and didn't realise the mother was there, but if it was 2 days why did she not alert them sooner, and was the toilet not flushed in all that time?  It just doesn't make a lot of sense to me at all.

[colliewobbles]

It doesn't actually say 2 days anywhere, but 2-3 hours.  Still, the whole thing sounds very strange and somewhat outside the realms of possibility to me.  But then it is a different country and a very different culture so we cannot really judge from here.

If it's true then I am just glad that the baby seems to have come through OK.

Donna

[doganjo]

Not 2 days - 2 hours - possibly a translation error - I think the poor girl panicked!

"The desperate mother of a newborn baby who became trapped in a sewer pipe "deeply regrets" what she did, local police have said.
The 22-year-old, who had kept her pregnancy secret, raised the alarm after she unexpectedly gave birth in the squat toilet of the apartment block where she lives in Jinhua, eastern China.
The baby was saved after firefighters cut out a section of the pipe and took it to a local hospital where the infant was carefully cut out. The whole operation was captured on video.
The boy - named Baby No. 59 because of his incubator number in hospital - suffered minor injuries, but is said to be healthy.
The mother was present for the entire two-hour rescue, but did not admit giving birth until confronted by police later, according to reports.
Jinhua police said on the social networking website Weibo that the case was still under investigation, although other reports suggest the unnamed mother will not be prosecuted.
An officer, whose interview with a local TV channel was posted on the police Weibo site, said: "She deeply regrets what she did."
The officer said the mother told officers she rushed to the toilet after she began to feel stomach pains and subsequently gave birth to the baby.
"She tried to grab something to help herself because there is too much blood," the police officer said.
"She couldn't hold the baby anymore, and he slides into the sewage through the hole of the toilet."
During questioning, the mother said she never intended that the baby would end up in the toilet.
She said after she was unable to retrieve the baby, she decided to flush the toilet to clear away the blood, according to the officer, whose name and title was not provided in the interview.
She then called the landlord, saying she had heard a strange sound that seemed like a baby and suggested that the landlord and others come to check, the police officer said.
The baby suffered some cuts to his face and limbs and was put in an incubator at the Pujiang People's Hospital.
The head of the hospital, Wu Xinhong, said the infant was healthy and ready to be released.
"His condition is good, but his relatives have not come to pick him up yet," he said.
Police have said the mother, who is unmarried, was in a serious condition due to complications from the delivery, while authorities were still looking for the baby's father.

[Jackie 2]

I feel sad for the mother too.

[shygirl]

i think there is a culture background we cant really comphrehend. its terrible really that giving birth in china isnt a joy for everyone. something we take for granted in the uk.

[jaykay]

Dear God, that the control and fear should be such that she had to hide it all and end up in this situation. There are many regimes I'm truly thankful I don't live under and China, for all it's apparent civilisation, is one of them!

[happygolucky]

I did not watch that link but another and that said 2 days at the end of it, thought it a bit odd that a baby could live that long but I suppose not impossible....anyway, it is a lost in translation thing, I did hear right as I played it several times but then it did not make sense as the mum would have long gone!!!!! horrid but thankful and I suppose easily done!!
 
THis is what I read http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2331941/Chinese-baby-flushed-toilet-rescued-ALIVE-Did-mother-raise-alarm.html

"The mother of the newborn baby boy flushed  down a toilet in China watched in secret as rescuers dramatically plucked him  alive from a sewer pipe.

The 22-year-old woman is believed to have  raised the initial alarm but only confessed to police after they searched her  rented room and found toys and blood-stained toilet paper, the Chinese state  news agency reported.

The two-day-old, 5lb boy  has been temporarily named Baby 59 – the number of the incubator in which he  lies with a fractured skull and severe bruising."



 

[happygolucky]

I read that and thought the baby was just found and it was 2 days old but it may well be that was 2 days ago and thats how old it is now

[shygirl]

i think its happened before - if you google it - it comes up a few years back.