At the end of two days, severe pains set in, and a warm hip-bath and an opiate were ordered.
While in the bath she bore a fully-matured, living, male child, to the great surprise of herself and her friends.

The child might have been drowned had not assistance been close at hand.
Birth by the Rectum .-- In some cases in which there is some obstacle to the delivery of a child by the natural passages, the efforts of nature to expel the product of conception lead to an anomalous exit.

There are some details of births by the rectum mentioned in the last century by Reta and others.

Payne cites the instance of a woman of thirty-three, in labor thirty-six hours, in whom there was a congenital absence of the vaginal orifice.

The finger, gliding along the perineum, arrived at a distended anus, just inside of which was felt a fetal head.