The newborn baby boy was rescued after being flushed down the toilet. He was discovered in the sewage pipe in a residential building in Jinhua in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang on Saturday afternoon after residents reported the sound of a baby crying. The baby was stuck in the tube for at least two hours before he was finally rescued
Attempts to pull him out proved abortive, so rescuers sawed off a section of the pipe while the baby was inside and took him to a local hospital. It took firefighters and doctors nearly an hour to pull out the baby whose placenta was still attached.
The newborn suffered some cuts to his face and limbs and his heart rate was low at one point. He weighed 2.3-kilogram.
According to a police officer in Jinhua, “the baby’s single mother had hidden her pregnancy, the baby fell into the toilet after she unexpectedly gave birth,” the officer said. “The woman was on the scene during the entire rescue process… and admitted that she was the mother when we asked her,” he added.
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