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Pregnant Indian woman's daring swim to avoid home birth

An Indian woman in her ninth month of pregnancy has swum a river swollen by monsoon rain to give birth in hospital. Yellavva used dried pumpkins and gourds as bouyancy aids to swim nearly a kilometre from her river island village to safety in southern Karnataka state. She said she was “scared” but wanted her baby born safely – there is no medical centre in her village and she did […]