Baby Ripped From Mother’s Womb During Crash Miraculously Survives

In a miraculous incident, a baby girl who was ripped out of her mother’s womb during a vehicular accident, ended up surviving the crash. The mother, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky.

A nearly nine-month pregnant woman was travelling in the passenger seat of a truck carrying wooden planks on a motorway near Cajati, in southeast Brazil, when the driver lost control of the vehicle and it toppled over.

The woman was ejected from the cabin before being crushed under the load the truck was carrying. At some point during the incident, the baby got torn from the mother’s womb and landed on a patch of grass a few meters away from the crash site.

Before the emergency services arrived at the scene, they received the information about the “serious accident” with reports of one deceased individual. So, when paramedic Elton Fernando Barbosa — who was one of the first responders — analyzed the crash site, he was in for a surprise.

“When I arrived there, I saw that the truck driver was injured, and he was seen by the first aid team,” Barbosa told Metro. “I went looking for the fatal victim who was underneath the wood, when I heard the cries of a baby. It was which total apprehension, because there had been no reports of a third victim.”

The fact that the baby was discovered without a scratch, having its umbilical cord severed during the accident, was nothing less than a “miracle,” according to the paramedic.

“She was perfect, healthy, without a scratch. We can say that, in those circumstances, it was really a miracle that she survived. I’ll be honest. It was God. By what I saw, I have no idea how she came out alive. The mother was underneath several planks of wood. I don’t know how this child got out of with her life,” he said.

The newborn was rushed to the Pariquera-Acu regional hospital’s neonatal intensive care ward, where she is receiving the medical care required. The hospital staff has named the baby Giovanna, which means “protected by God.” She weighs six pounds and eight ounces.

“She is really calm baby, she doesn’t cry, if you play with her she even smiles,” Solange Batista, a nurse at the Pariquera-Acu hospital, said.

Meanwhile, the police are trying to identify the mother of the baby, as the deceased woman did not have any form of identification on her. The driver, who survived the crash and was charged with manslaughter, said he did not know the woman and was simply giving her a lift.

If the woman is left unidentified, the police will bury her body without a name and the baby will be sent to an orphanage where she can be put up for adoption.

Describing the one in a million incident, Barbosa said it was bitter-sweet.

“It was emotional. Unfortunately we had the death of the mother, which is something we always never happens. But in the midst of the tragedy, we were able to save the baby. … This event has marked my life. I don’t think there has ever been an accident like this in the history of the motorway. We lost a life, but we were responsible for giving life to a girl,” he added.