**she cut through skin, fat & muscle, reaching her uterus & pulling
out her baby boy. she cut his umbilical cord with a pair of scissors.
This is one tough mother: Ines Ramirez is the only woman known to have
performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself! The sun had set
hours ago. The nearest clinic was 80 km away over rough roads, and her
husband, her only assistant during a half-dozen previous births, was
drinking at a cantina. She had no phone and neither did the cantina.
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 a 15-cm knife
and began to cut.
By the light of a single dim bulb, Ramirez sawed through skin, fat and
muscle before reaching inside her uterus and pulling out her baby boy.
She says she cut his umbilical cord with a pair of scissors, then
passed out. When she regained consciousness, she wrapped a sweater
around her bleeding abdomen and asked her 6-year-old son, Benito, to
runfor help. Several hours later, the village health assistant, Leon
Cruz,and a second health worker found Ramirez alert and lying beside
her live baby. Cruz sewed her 17-cm incision up with a regular needle
and thread. The two men lifted mother and child onto a thin straw mat,
lugged them up horse paths to the town's only road, then drove them to
the clinic over two hoursaway.
That was March 5, 2000. Now Ines Ramirez is recognized internationally
as a modern miracle: She is believed to be the only woman known to
have performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself.
out her baby boy. she cut his umbilical cord with a pair of scissors.
This is one tough mother: Ines Ramirez is the only woman known to have
performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself! The sun had set
hours ago. The nearest clinic was 80 km away over rough roads, and her
husband, her only assistant during a half-dozen previous births, was
drinking at a cantina. She had no phone and neither did the cantina.
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 a 15-cm knife
and began to cut.
By the light of a single dim bulb, Ramirez sawed through skin, fat and
muscle before reaching inside her uterus and pulling out her baby boy.
She says she cut his umbilical cord with a pair of scissors, then
passed out. When she regained consciousness, she wrapped a sweater
around her bleeding abdomen and asked her 6-year-old son, Benito, to
runfor help. Several hours later, the village health assistant, Leon
Cruz,and a second health worker found Ramirez alert and lying beside
her live baby. Cruz sewed her 17-cm incision up with a regular needle
and thread. The two men lifted mother and child onto a thin straw mat,
lugged them up horse paths to the town's only road, then drove them to
the clinic over two hoursaway.
That was March 5, 2000. Now Ines Ramirez is recognized internationally
as a modern miracle: She is believed to be the only woman known to
have performed a successful Caesarean-section on herself.
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