Woman Delivers Baby In Toilet

[matcom]

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LITTLETON, Colorado --A premature baby survived after being delivered in a toilet, police said.

"I just had a baby," Salina Newman told the operator when she dialed emergency services Tuesday, according to transcripts released to the media on Thursday. "I was only six months pregnant and I went to the restroom and the baby is in the toilet."

Littleton police officer Bob Carmody said when he arrived at the apartment, Newman told him the baby had been miscarried.

"I looked in the toilet bowl and I could see movement, and the baby was enclosed in the sac and everything," Carmody told Denver television stations. He pulled the baby out of the toilet with rubber gloves.

"I could see the hair, the hands up by the face, and parts of the legs and stuff, but I didn't take a lot of time to look at it. I just made sure and covered up the blanket."

Another officer ran down three flights of stairs to paramedics who had just arrived.

The baby girl, named Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards), weighed 1.5 pounds and was taken to Littleton Adventist Hosptial, where she's expected to remain until she reaches 6 pounds, police said.

Hospital spokeswoman Allison Hefner declined to release information when contacted by The Associated Press Thursday, citing federal privacy rules.

http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2006/02/10/colorado_woman_delivers_baby_in_a_toilet?mode=PF

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Some days, you wonder what the hell is going on.

How odd.

[BlueIris]

2. I...

just can't get past the "heaven spelled backwards" part of this. Not a joke, I'm not mocking this poor woman or her child, but: heaven spelled backwards. Okay.

[Bunny]

4. I have a niece who named her baby girl that very thing.

Nevaeh - heaven spelled backwards. I kid you not.

[Momgonepostal]

7. I used to cruise baby name sites when I was pregnant...

with my last and was SHOCKED,and not in a good way, at all the people that liked this name.

Why would you want to name a child after a backwards heaven?

[LisaL]

3. Sounds like the baby just dropped out. Weird.

[I Have A Dream]

5. That's just TOO weird! Glad the baby's OK though. n/t

[Lars39]

6. Happens more often than people realize.