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 realized 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.
SOURCE TOI
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Superstition and folklore about the Christmas flavor appears timeless. Here is a illustration:
- ~animals will all kneel down as the Holy Night gets in,
- ~bees buzz the ‘100th psalm’ on Christmas Eve,
- ~a breezy Christmas will bring good fortune,
- ~a person born on Christmas Day can see the Little People,
- ~a cricket on the fireplace brings good luck,
- ~opening all doors of the house at midnight allows evil spirits to take leave,
- ~you will have one auspicious month for each Christmas pudding you taste,
- ~the tree must be removed down by Twelfth night-time or ill luck will accompany,
- ~’if Christmas on a Sunday be, a blowy winter we shall ascertain’,
- ~’hours of sun on Christmas Day, so many icings in the month of May’,
- ~the Twelve Days of Christmas will forecast each month’s weather for the following year,
and so on…..
LEGEND OF THE FIRST CHRISTMAS TREE
One frosty Christmas Eve, Martin Luther was journeying home by the forest. It was a clearly, starlit night time, and the stars scintillated through the limbs of the predominating evergreen trees.
Martin Luther was bewildered by the great thing about the view, and wished well his wife and children could see it. So he cut knock down a young fir tree and took it into his house. And then he put wax light on the tree branches to gleam like stars.
And then he called his wife and children to see it and told them; “This is how the stars gleamed down on Bethlehem long ago, when Jesus was born.”
And that was the very first Christmas tree.
Santa Claus
Santa comes on your roof top and makes sure that his list is set and that all the gifts are in his bagful. As he begins down the lamp chimney with his bag of presents on his shoulder joint, he slips down the chimney and makes sure that he fire is not ablaze as to not hurt him. As he reaches the bottom and ascents out of the open fireplace, Santa makes sure that everyone is asleep and he is rather as a mouse as he put the gift under the tree and fills up the oodles.
If your house does not have a open fireplace don’t worry Santa is jolly cunning, he finds a way in, because Santa is chill.
Santa Stockings
Santa hands over presents to all good youngsters and in conformity to custom. The legend of the traditional hanging of the Christmas stocking began when Saint Nicholas dropped gold coins down a hapless household chimney and the coins landed in stockings hung by the fire to dry.
When Santa is out he also takes care of the animals at Christmas time. As legend has it, the animals are also visited by Santa to make sure that their are being taken care of. Even the Polar bears at the North Pole are waiting for Santa’s arrival.
Just alike the clever cat, who knows that Santa will come as soon as they are asleep, is at rest early. However, this not trick for cats because as everyone knows that cats don’t have a trouble with going to sleep because this is their favored past time.
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