Name for miracle baby: Jodhaa or Karishma?

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Very interesting Story - through i should share will all - Life's victory in all odds:- Lokesh

 

Read the following in TOI yesterday:

 

AHMEDABAD: Call it good fortune or just the will of God. But the life in a seven-month-old foetus, that fell through the toilet bowl of a running train when the mother went to ease herself, still lives on!

Call it a miracle, perhaps. This tiny bundle weighing just 1.4 kg, which slipped from the womb into the toilet tube and crash-landed on rocks between two steel tracks, is from the top drawer of survival tales.

Born a good two months premature, she is recuperating in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of Rajasthan Hospitals. Here, she lies without a scratch after the providential escape just before midnight on Tuesday.

" She is a fighter. In just 12 hours after the unthinkable accident, she was coming out of the accident quite well, " said pediatrician Dr Raj Kumar.

" She is a gift from God. How else can all this be explained, " the girl's mother, Bhuri Kalbi (33), said. Bhuri is a native of Swaroopganj, located between Sirohi and Abu Road, in Rajasthan and was travelling by the Jodhpur-Ahmedabad train.

Bhuri was headed for Ahmedabad with her relatives for a medical check-up. She felt very weak on the toilet seat and passed out. The next thing she remembers is people knocking on the toilet door.

When she managed to get up to open the latched door, she realised an emptiness in her stomach. " I realised my stomach was flat. My child was gone, " said Bhuri whose husband works in a packaging unit in Ahmedabad.

Bhuri's brother-in-law Arjun said when she opened the door she was semiconscious. He realised with complete shock what had happened. " We immediately pulled the chain at Kalol, two stations away from where the child had slipped off and alerted the train guard, " he said.

On a day when the Railway Budget was presented by Lalu Prasad, who promised 'green toilets' in trains, the girl can thank railway personnel for snatching her from sure death. As she lay on the track — fortunately located close to the Amblisayan railway station — some members of the Gram Rakshak Dal alerted station master KK Rai that a new-born child was lying on the track.

While rushing to the spot on foot, Rai said he could hear the cries of the baby from a distance. On coming closer, he could not believe what he saw. " The baby was lying dangerously close to the left track with the umbilical cord hanging by the side, " Rai said. The baby had turned blue due to the chill at midnight.

The railwaymen wrapped the baby in a cloth and called the local doctor. While the child was being examined, a call came, saying the parents were traced.

The mother could not believe her eyes when she was reunited with the baby two hours later at the Kalol Civil Hospital. And she just can't take her eyes off this baby ever since.

 

 

 

Name for miracle baby: Jodhaa or Karishma?29 Feb 2008, 0041 hrs IST,Radha Sharma ,TNN

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Being from south Rajasthan, where Jodhaa is revered for her valour, the family is leaning toward naming the baby after the queen (TOI Photo)

 

AHMEDABAD: Jodhaa for valour or Karishma for miracle? Parents of the survivor-against-all-odds baby, the 1.4 kg girl who had a delivery through her mother's womb into the toilet bowl of a running train and then right onto the tracks, have zeroed in on these two names.

" Jodhaa and Karishma seem most apt. We are finding it difficult to choose between the two, " says mother Bhuri Kalbi, after consulting husband Prabhuram. Being from south Rajasthan, where Jodhaa is revered for her valour, the family is leaning toward naming her after the queen whose name has been thrust into the public realm by the controversy over the movie Jodhaa-Akbar.

" Our daughter has lived against all odds. Our daughter has proved she is a miraculous fighter, " says Prabhuram, the girl's father who works in a packaging unit in Ahmedabad. The buzz created by the story reported in Wednesday's edition of the TOI and flashed all day Thursday by TV channels led to a procession of people to the Rajasthan Hospital, eager to catch a glimpse of the miracle baby.

" Where is the little champion? " asked one man. Another peeped into the ICU asking the attending paediatrician if the girl needed any blood. " I am willing to donate blood for God's own daughter, " he said.

" This girl has generated tremendous excitement and goodwill among people here with her miraculous survival, " attending paediatrician Dr Raj Kumar told TOI. On Thursday, the little bundle was mostly busy exercising her fragile lungs crying and also throwing in the faintest of smiles in between as she remained in the incubator. Doctors said that lady luck would have been smiling all along as she did not seem to have landed on the tracks on her head.

" Usually, children are born head first. It seems the girl either came legs first or swing around her umbilical cord and landed on her hip. She has no trace of injury whatsoever on her head, though she has some internal injury on the hip bone, " said Dr Kumar. The hospital has decided not to charge any fee for treating the girl and her mother since the family is not well-off, hospital chairman Babulal Rungta said.

Meanwhile, station master K K Rai sacrificed his day-off on Thursday and boarded a train to Ahmedabad from Ambaliyasan first thing in the morning to check if the girl he saved from the railway track was doing fine!

" Her survival is God's will. When we found her, she was lying dangerously close to one track, crying miserably, her body turning blue and cold. I am so glad she has made it, " Rai, himself a father of a one-year-old boy told TOI as he peered through the incubator glass.