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Yes, you can call it the mother of all ‘I should not be alive‘ series of Discovery channel. This incident happened a few days ago in Western India. A seven-month old fetus which fell through the toilet bowl of a running train when the mother went to ease herself still lives on!

This incredible story of a tiny newborn, weighing just 1.4Kg, which slipped from the womb into the toilet tube and crashed on rocks between two steel tracks, is sure to find a place in the top survival tales of the world.

The child’s mother, Bhuri Kalbi, 33, a resident of Swaroopganj - a village between Sirohi and Abu Road in Rajashthan - was travelling on an overnight train to Ahmedabad with relatives for a medical checkup. When she went to the bathroom shortly before midnight she felt weak on the toilet seat and fell unconscious. In an unconscious state she gave birth to a baby girl and passed out from the pain. Toilets that open directly on to the tracks are a common feature of Indian trains. The baby fell through the toilet on the tracks. The train kept moving and two stations later, her relatives knocked at the door to find why she is taking so long in the toilet. Shockingly they found her covered in blood in a semi conscious state. She realized an emptiness in her stomach and found that her child was gone.

After realizing with shock what had happened, the relatives of Bhuri pulled the train’s emergency brake at Kalol, two station from where the child had slipped off and alerted the guard.

When all these things were happening in trains, what the new born baby was doing ?

As she lay on the track, fortunately close to the Amblisayan railway station, some members of the Gram Rakshak Dal (a village Self-help group) alerted station master KK Rai that a newborn child was lying on the track. While rushing to the spot on foot, Rai said he could hear the cries of the baby. On coming closer, he could not believe what he saw. The baby was lying dangerously close to the left track with the umbilical cord hanging by the side. She had turned blue due to the midnight chill. The railwaymen wrapped her in a cloth and called a local doctor. While the baby was being examined, a call came that the parents had been traced. The baby’s mother, Bhuri could not believe her eyes when she was reunited with the baby two hours later at the Kalol Civil Hospital. And she hasn’t taken eyes off her daughter ever since.

Call it a miracle or the will of God, it is one of those rarest of the rare case when somebody survives against all odds. The girl is now recuperating in the neonatal intensive care unit of Rajashthan Hospitals, where she lies without a scratch after that miraculous escape. See the girl with her mother in the the picture.

“She was on the rail track for almost 1-1/2 to two hours,” Dr. Gautam Jain, a pediatrician at Rajasthan Hospital in Ahmadabad, in the western state of Gujarat, where the baby and mother were taken, told the press. The baby, who weighed just 3.22 pounds, had a low heart rate and body temperature. “We do not expect such children to survive,” Jain added. But so far she has.

I hope the baby will survives the battle of life and will be a living example of God’s miracle.

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