Alisa’s baby girl Anya is now being cared for by her partner and relatives (Picture: east2west)

A new mother died moments after meeting her baby for the first time when her uterus was yanked out by a doctor during birth.

Alisa Tepikina, 22, died in ‘excruciating pain’ when her internal organs were removed instead of the baby’s placenta.

The doctor involved faces up to three years in jail over the death when the new mother went into a coma and ‘died of shock’ after suffering a cardiac arrest in the Russian town of Nizhneserginskaya.

Alisa only had time to smile at her newborn daughter before the obstetrician tried to pull the placenta from her uterus when it suddenly became inverted.




An inverted uterus is a rare medical emergency where the organ turns inside out and protrudes into the vagina or beyond the vaginal canal.

The uterus is most commonly inverted when too much traction is applied to the umbilical cord in an attempt to deliver the placenta.

Alisa Tepikina, 22, died in ‘excruciating pain’ moments after birth (Picture: east2west)

Charges of causing death by negligence have been brought against the doctor, a woman aged 27, at the end of a six month investigation.

Head doctor at the hospital, Elena Barannikova, told the Russian Investigative Committee that the medic involved performed no ‘violent actions’ during the incident.

But her claim was rejected by medical experts after an ‘exhaustive anaylsis’.

Alisa’s placenta should have been detached manually by the doctor under anaesthetic, the investigation found.

The committee said in a statement: ‘Non-controlled or improper pulling of the umbilical cord led to full inversion of the uterus.

‘The female organs were pulled out, then pushed back when it was too late.

‘The doctor on duty did not recognise the life-threatening complication of the birth.

Alisa and her baby’s father, Nikolay Tepikin, before the birth (Picture: east2west)

‘As a result, medical help was provided with unacceptably huge delay.

‘The uterus was repositioned only 4 hours 15 minutes later when the massive bleeding and the irreversible shock had already developed, along with heart failure.’

The doctor’s mistakes ‘worsened the situation and caused the massive loss of blood, irreversible (and) complicated shock, heart failure and death of the patient’, the experts alleged.

Alisa’s relatives said they heard her screams as they waited in the hospital.

Her father Dmitry Malyukov, 47, said: ‘My daughter was suffering, she was screaming in pain but the doctor paid no attention.’

Alisa’s family said they could hear her screams in the hospital (Picture: east2west)

He said hearing that the doctor ‘tugged the umbilical cord with real force’ was ‘like something from the Middle Ages’.

Alisa’s mother Svetlana Malyukova, 42, added: ‘There were no apologies, nor attempts to contact us.’

The doctor is due to face trial over Alisa’s death. She has already faced disciplinary action, according to local media reports.

Alisa’s baby Anya is now being raised by her mother and her husband Nikolay Tepikin, 22.

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