What's with me and stories about women delivering kids in bathrooms all of a sudden? First came the incredible, true story earlier this week of a teen's shower delivery. And now, a more harrowing tale about an Australian mom who delivered her child in a hospital toilet. (This is to say nothing of Brett's post not too long ago about the couple in Chile forced to deliver their babe in a bathroom.)

According to father Nick Patsidis, his wife said she had to use the bathroom not long after midwives at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney broke her water. But once she got in the loo, she realized the baby was coming out. According to the family, the midwives had disappeared. Dad walked in to see his daughter's head emerging, the umbilical cord wrapped around the infant's neck and the child turning blue. Nurses stepped in and were able to save the baby girl, who is doing just fine.

Naturally, the Patsidis family is blaming the hospital for its lack of adequate staffing. Royal North Shore apparently got into similar trouble a year ago when a woman miscarried in a toilet after waiting for two hours in the ER. Hospital officials, on the other hand, maintain they did nothing wrong. All of which sounds like the makings of a messy lawsuit.

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