Teen mom leaves new baby girl in bushes
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A teenage volleyball player in China gave birth to a baby in a gymnasium toilet before leaving the girl in some bushes and returning to her tournament.
The girl went into labor while filming a match at the national under-18s women’s volleyball championship in Changxing city in the eastern province of Zhejiang on Wednesday, the Hangzhou Daily reported yesterday.
She gave birth alone in the toilet before placing the baby in the bushes near the gymnasium “out of fear,” the report said, then went back inside to continue recording the match.
The infant was discovered by a passer-by, who followed a trail of blood on the ground to find the mother, the report said.
“She was resting near the courtside,” the website of the People’s Daily quoted the passer-by, surnamed Wang, as saying. “She looked fine after giving birth. I assumed that she must have a strong body to give birth to a baby during the match.”
The newborn and the mother were rushed to hospital for treatment, it added. Both were safe.
Chinese babies born out of wedlock are sometimes abandoned because of social and financial pressures. The country’s family-planning policy can mean heavy fines for couples who have more than two babies.
A newborn was rescued from a toilet sewage pipe on Sunday in Xinping County in the southwestern province of Yunnan, according to a website run by the fire department of China’s public security ministry.
It took firefighters nearly three hours to take the pipe apart, piece by piece, in order to pull the baby out.
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