Mexico City, Mexico, Jun 1, 2004 / 22:00 pm
The Associated Press arrived at the remote village of Rio Talea in the southern mountains of Mexico to confirm a story many couldn’t believe: a mother performed a caesarian section on herself with nothing more than a knife and a few gulps of rubbing alcohol.
The heroin of this story is Ines Ramirez Perez, mother of seven children, including the one she courageously saved herself. An AP reporter found her four years later, spoke with her, met her “miracle son” and got confirmation of the story from witnesses.
The extraordinary birth was reported this past March in the International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics in an article was co-authored by Rafael Valle, an obstetrician at Northwestern University in Chicago.
The woman’s story was known in the village and its surroundings but not in the rest of the country and the world.