This one seems to be straight out of the ‘Ripley’s Believe it or Not’ series.

A foetus slipped through the toilet bowl of a running train when her mother went to ease herself. But the new-born was hale and heart in spite of lying on the tracks in the cold of the night with a dangling umbilical cord.

Though born premature and infirm, the seven-month-old girl seems to show the grit to challenge problems early on in life, doctors attending her said.

Weighing 1.4 kg, the baby is recuperating at neo-natal intensive care unit of Rajasthan Hospitals here.

Bhuriben (33), a native of Rajasthan’s Sirohi district, delivered the baby prematurely in a semi-conscious state on Tuesday midnight in the toilet of Jodhpur-Ahmedabad train while on way to Ahmedabad for a routine medical check-up.

The new-born, who fell in the railway track at Amblisayan railway station in north Gujarat, had turned blue but she suffered no major injuries. She is under the care of pediatrician Gautam Jain and Raj Kumar.

“Her condition is stable but she has a long way to go,” Jain said, adding that she did have some breathing problems. She will have to be in the hospital for a week.

Earlier, when Bhuriben’s brother-in-law Arjun, accompanying her in the journey, learnt of what had happened, he alerted the guard after pulling the chain of the train at Kalol, some distance away from where the girl had fallen.
However, by that time members of Gram Rakshak Dal had spotted the new-born on the track and with the help of the station master rushed her some medical aid.

Bhuriben’s joy knew no bounds when she was reunited with her baby at the civil hospital. The mother is also being treated and her condition was reported to be stable.