Baby Slip Up

Commentary Editor

   I recently read an article explaining how a first-time pregnant mother unknowingly gave birth while “relieving” herself on a train toilet resulting in her two-month premature baby falling through the hole onto the tracks.

   As a mother of three children, the article titled “Pregnant Woman Uses Train Toilet, Baby Slips Out” left me puzzled and with many questions. 

   From my previous experiences, labor pains can be basically compared to being torn from the inside out. Immense back pain, stomach pain and pressure, which is unimaginable and, if memory serves me correctly, left me begging for a C-section.  Granted her baby weighed less than a full-term baby, but come on, she had to know while “relieving” herself something felt a little different.

   Another fact remains that when babies are born they are attached via umbilical cord to the placenta inside the mother’s body, yet this woman’s baby remarkably slipped out.

   How?

   She alleged she needed to use the bathroom, passed out for a few minutes and awoke to discover she had birthed the baby and it had fallen through the toilet onto the ground.

   Here is my theory.                                                                                              

   She felt the excruciating pains, gave birth, cut the cord and let it go down the chute. The problem with her pathetic story is the fact that the baby and the placenta do not come out at the same time. If she were to have given birth on the toilet and passed out, the baby would not have gone down the toilet because it takes about 15 minutes or so for a woman’s body to pass the placenta. This would have resulted in her “passing out” on the floor with the baby still attached to the placenta lying beside her.

   Something doesn’t add up here.

   While pondering on the woman’s credibility, I took into account this weird event took place in India and the baby’s gender was female. In India, female babies are poisoned, buried alive or strangled because the parent’s are trying to deter future costs. The costs consist of thousands of dollars from the bride’s family, which is given to the groom’s family in order to perform a traditional Hindu wedding.

   Murdering your child due to possible financial difficulty makes me feel sick to my stomach, considering how women take fertility medications and go through grueling efforts to adopt a child.

   The woman’s conceited actions left me concerned for the future of this baby’s well-being, if it survives being thrown out of a moving train and the illnesses associated with prematurity.

   This woman is no different than Andrea Yates who killed all of her children one at a time by drowning them in the bathtub. Susan Smith also comes to mind. Smith locked her children inside her car and drove them into a lake to drown.

   Although those women were headline news, it shouldn’t be any different in this situation. Police have been known to accuse people wrongly for crimes, which is bad enough, but when the evidence is so overwhelming they stand there and accept the offender’s blatant lies, it makes me wonder who we have to protect us.

   I have the same opinion concerning this story as I do women who get abortions. If you did not want to get pregnant, then do not participate in activities that may potentially cause pregnancy. If you do, by being raped, become pregnant and can’t deal with the mental trauma, please have the decency to birth the baby and allow it to be adopted by a caring family.

   The baby didn’t ask to be born nor did God intend on you murdering it. God loans children to fortunate women as a gift. What does God think when you throw His gift away?

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