On 6/27, Okayama Prefecture police received an emergency call that “a woman gave birth in a toilet, and the baby has fallen in!”

According to the Okayama City Fire Department, the mother is a 40 year-old owner of the house where the incident took place. The toilet was an old-fashioned squat toilet, and the baby fell 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) then hit its base. Fire fighters spent over one and a half hours breaking the floor to retrieve the baby, which thankfully was uninjured. The woman was rushed to the hospital for heavy bleeding during delivery, but has since recovered.

She was quoted saying “I felt something strange about my body. I didn’t think that I was pregnant.”

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