We interrupt our wildlife program 😅 to talk about that Mexican woman.

Because this is wild life in every possible way imaginable.

On March 5, 2000, Inés Ramírez Pérez faced every pregnant woman's worst nightmare: 12 hours of agonizing labor with no medical help, no transportation, and the haunting memory of losing her previous baby to obstructed delivery. Living in a one-room cabin with no electricity, running water, or sanitation in the mountains of Oaxaca, the 40-year-old mother of six was completely alone when her husband went out.

With the nearest clinic over 50 miles away on treacherous mountain roads, Pérez decided to defy all medical logic. After consuming three glasses of hard liquor as anesthesia, she grabbed a 6-inch butchering knife and began cutting through her own abdomen. Drawing on her experience slaughtering animals, she made three vertical incisions totaling 17 centimeters—much larger than a typical C-section—and reached inside her own uterus to pull out her baby boy.

The surgery took over an hour under a single dim bulb, during which she somehow avoided damaging vital organs by instinctively choosing a squatting position that positioned her uterus against the abdominal wall. After cutting the umbilical cord with scissors, she wrapped her newborn son Orlando in clothes, sent her 6-year-old son for help, and lost consciousness.

When village health aide León Cruz arrived hours later, he found both mother and child alive—Pérez was alert and caring for her baby. Using an ordinary needle and cotton thread, he sewed up her massive wound before an 8-hour journey to the nearest hospital, where stunned doctors found no signs of infection, minimal bleeding, and perfect uterine recovery. Published in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, her case represents the only documented successful self-inflicted C-section where both mother and child survived.

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