Kathmandu, March 24 -- Doctors at a private hospital in Lalitpur five months ago told Prem Kala Gharti that she had an anterior placenta and that she needed to undergo a caesarean delivery.

The 29-year-old woman from Pyuthan district, now a mother of two, said she did not have enough money for a caesarean section.

"I told the doctors that my first son was delivered normally. So I wanted a normal delivery for the second baby," Gharti told the Post. "But the doctor would not listen; she insisted that I undergo a caesarean section."

Gharti's labour pain started four days ahead of the date suggested by the doctor. Her in-laws rushed her to Patan Hospital where she gave birth to a baby boy without surgery. Gharti's second child is now five ...