Rather than experience fetal death in utero again, [the 40-year-old-woman] used her skills at slaughtering animals. She took 3 small glasses of hard liquor and, using a kitchen knife, sliced her abdomen in 3 attempts in the right paramedial region, cut the uterus itself longitudinally, and delivered a male infant that breathed immediately and cried. Apparently, she did not bleed excessively and asked one of her children to call a local nurse for help before she lost consciousness.
Both survived.
Holy mother of god.
Inez Ramirez. This became necessary when she went into labor while her husband (who assisted with her previous births) was at the local cantina. They lived in a very rural area of Mexico and did not have a phone in their own home so Inez was unable to call for help.
Lessons: women are badasses. Mother’s are fierce. Rural areas should be set up with telephones.
