"Perez took several swigs from a bottle of hard liquor to dull the pain and grabbed a knife with a six-inch blade. She had no medical expertise, but she relied on her experience butchering animals to operate on herself. Instead of making the customary horizontal cut along the bikini line, she made three separate incisions in her abdomen, cutting vertically next to her belly button while squatting. Later, doctors would later show that this technique kept her from damaging any of her internal organs—and likely kept her alive. After about an hour of grueling work, she was able to pull the baby boy out of her own womb. The baby began breathing immediately, and Perez grabbed a pair of scissors to cut his umbilical cord before falling unconscious."
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"Perez took several swigs from a bottle of hard liquor to dull the pain and grabbed a knife with a six-inch blade. She had no medical expertise, but she relied on her experience butchering animals to operate on herself. Instead of making the customary horizontal cut along the bikini line, she made three separate incisions in her abdomen, cutting vertically next to her belly button while squatting. Later, doctors would later show that this technique kept her from damaging any of her internal organs—and likely kept her alive. After about an hour of grueling work, she was able to pull the baby boy out of her own womb. The baby began breathing immediately, and Perez grabbed a pair of scissors to cut his umbilical cord before falling unconscious."