Baby stabbed 90 times with scissors by his Chinese mother after he bit her as she was breastfeeding him

Eight-month-old Xiao Bao was discovered by his uncle in a pool of blood

Needed 100 stitches after the incident; he is now recovering in hospital

Reports say his mother does not suffer from any mental illnesses

An eight-month-old boy is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed 90 times by his mother, mostly in the face, for biting her while she was breastfeeding.

Xiao Bao needed more than 100 stitches after the incident in Xuzhou, eastern China's Jiangsu Province.



The infant lives with his mother and two uncles, who make a living recycling rubbish. It was one of the uncles who discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital.



Chilling: An eight-month-old baby is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed 90 times by his mother after he bit her while she was breastfeeding

Ordeal: Xiao Bao needed more than 100 stitches after the incident in Xuzhou, eastern China's Jiangsu Province

It was one of the uncles who discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital

M ental illness remains a relatively closed topic in modern China, and neither medication nor modern psychiatric treatment is widely used.



An analysis of mental health issues in four Chinese provinces, published in 2009 in the British medical journal The Lancet, estimated that 91 per cent of the 173million Chinese adults that were believed to suffer mental problems never receive professional help.

