# Miracle baby **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 29, 2008, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622 "2008-02-29T09:25:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/1 "2008-02-29T09:25:11Z")
[story here](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Name_for_miracle_baby_Jodhaa_or_Karishma/articleshow/2824019.cms) Baby delivered in toilet of a running train, falls through the bowl onto tracks ,and miraculously survives… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/2 "2008-02-29T13:40:56Z")
Wow, that is incredible! ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/3 "2008-02-29T14:09:55Z")
The story I read, at the end the doctor said sort of off-handedly (because she was small and a bit premature) “we do not expect such children to survive”, indicating to me that they weren’t giving much hope for this little girl. I hope I"m wrong and she grows up big and strong. She wasn’t really that small - 3.22 lbs is huge considering how well many micropremies are. StG ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/4 "2008-02-29T18:12:40Z")
I kind of want to know why the mom was delivering on the toilet. Also, if the baby falls right out of you, what of the umbilical cord? Is it like a bungee jumping effect? Does the cord just snap or do you hang there? ---
**Author:** ![MLS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MLS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MLS)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/5 "2008-02-29T18:20:02Z")
The mother \*said \* she did not know she was delivering a baby. From what I’ve read elsewhere, “toilets” on trains in India are often nothing more than a seat over a hole in the floor. ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/6 "2008-02-29T18:38:35Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I kind of want to know why the mom was delivering on the toilet. [/QUOTE] The story I read said the baby wasn’t expected to come for a few more weeks. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/7 "2008-02-29T18:40:28Z")
[QUOTE=Omega Glory] The story I read said the baby wasn’t expected to come for a few more weeks. [/QUOTE] It can really be that unexpected, though? One minute you think you’re taking a piss/crap and the next a baby is out of you? ---
**Author:** ![Omega\_Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7c8e57/32.png) [@Omega\_Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omega_Glory)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/8 "2008-02-29T18:46:46Z")
There are women people who didn’t even realize they were \*pregnant \*until the baby came out, so stranger things have happened. ---
**Author:** ![Surly\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Surly\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surly_Chick)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/9 "2008-02-29T19:02:16Z")
I have to say that in [this picture](http://news.aol.com/story/_a/baby-falls-down-train-toilet-onto-tracks/20080228103909990001) mom does not look overly thrilled that baby survived… ---
**Author:** ![WhyNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/10 "2008-02-29T19:42:01Z")
[QUOTE=Freudian Slit] I kind of want to know why the mom was delivering on the toilet. Also, if the baby falls right out of you, what of the umbilical cord? Is it like a bungee jumping effect? Does the cord just snap or do you hang there? [/QUOTE] Reading the second linked article, it seems as though the mother went to the bathroom, used the toilet (or not) and then delivered the baby in the bathroom. Being as the “toilet” is a hole in the bottom of the car, the baby slipped out the hole - but not necessarily as the mother was using it. She (the mother) also bled a lot and passed out, so it’s possible she was holding the (slippery bloody) baby and dropped her. Of course, it’s also possible she was trying to dispose of her, but I don’t see anyone in the know speculating along those lines. The only reason I really wonder is because it’s a girl, and because the woman looks terribly thin to have been pregnant, even by second/third world standards, making me wonder if another child will be a hardship on them. The father, at least, appears happy to have another family member, but honestly, what would \*you \*say to a reporter? ---
**Author:** ![Zulema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/db5fbb/32.png) [@Zulema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zulema)\ **Post date:** [February 29, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/11 "2008-02-29T22:21:04Z")
Since it was India, and she doesn’t look too thrilled that the baby survived I think she probably delivered the baby, saw that it was a girl and threw it away. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/12 "2008-03-01T17:58:08Z")
uh how did some here arrive at the conclusion the babe is unwanted, the famiy did backtrack to find the infant didn’t they? And to say that the mother saw it was a girl and then threw her away is a total fabrication and an insult imo. Who cares if the mom is not smiling for the camera she is probably concerned for her baby’s life! ---
**Author:** ![Tenar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@Tenar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenar)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/13 "2008-03-01T20:49:20Z")
According to [this](http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Foetus_slips_out_of_moving_train_safe/articleshow/2820840.cms) earlier article, the mother passed out in the bathroom, then came to to discover that her belly was no longer occupied. ---
**Author:** ![Thorium\_Indium\_Potassium](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c2a13f/32.png) [@Thorium\_Indium\_Potassium](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thorium_Indium_Potassium)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miracle-baby/439622/14 "2008-03-02T15:42:56Z")
[QUOTE=Surly Chick] I have to say that in [this picture](http://news.aol.com/story/_a/baby-falls-down-train-toilet-onto-tracks/20080228103909990001) mom does not look overly thrilled that baby survived… [/QUOTE] I can’t guarantee that I’d be thrilled at being photographed over my newborn’s hospital bed so soon after giving birth. I don’t have a kid yet, so I could be wrong.