A baby girl's father unintentionally shot her mother during her pregnancy , resulting in an air gun pellet lodged in her stomach at birth.
The strange incident happened in Moscow, Russia , and according to the local media, the father was shooting with an air rifle when a pellet bounced off and entered his pregnant wife's stomach. The mother was taken to the hospital in her last month of pregnancy . Remarkably, tests showed that the baby's critical organs had not been harmed by the pellet, which was just under a centimeter in length and half a centimeter in width.
After examining her, the doctors concluded that it would be safer to wait until the baby was delivered before trying to remove the pellet. The pellet was extracted from her stomach, just beneath the skin, not long after she was born. After suturing the infant, the doctors declared that the mother and her infant daughter were doing well.
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When they strike a sensitive location, like the eyes, air rifles have the potential to be just as deadly as weapons. Air guns shoot pellets rather than bullets because the air is squeezed, either by an external lever or, more frequently, by compressed air. Lead is used to make certain pellets.
Lead poisoning, which can be deadly, can result from lead pellets becoming lodged in the body and remaining there for an extended period of time.
An airgun injury claims one life in the UK each year. The majority of these air weapons are exempt from a firearm certificate in England and Wales. But to purchase or hire one, you have to be older than 18.
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"Neonatal surgeons at the Moscow Regional Centre for Maternal and Child Health removed a pellet from a pneumatic weapon from the anterior abdominal wall of a newborn baby," the State Budgetary Institution of Healthcare of the Moscow Region stated. "The neonatal surgery department (headed by Mikhail Georgievich Rekhviashvili, PhD) received a call about transferring a child with a foreign object - a pellet in the anterior abdominal wall.
"The newborn girl was delivered in satisfactory condition. Upon palpation of the anterior abdominal wall, doctors discovered a subcutaneous mass." "Upon investigating the circumstances, it was found that at the 30th week of pregnancy, the child's father was practising shooting targets with a pneumatic weapon in the backyard.
"In a bizarre accident, the pellet ricocheted and hit the child's mother in the abdomen. The parents immediately sought medical assistance. An ultrasound was performed - there was no danger to the life and health of the mother and child and no indications for emergency surgical intervention."
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