http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4151059.stm
Tsunami 'miracle' woman pregnant
Malawati did not expect her unborn baby to survive
An Indonesian woman who was discovered last week after surviving for five days
in the Indian Ocean is pregnant, doctors have announced.
Malawati, in her early 20s, knew she was expecting a child but had not told her
rescuers because she assumed she would have lost it in her ordeal.
"I'm very glad, very happy," she said on hearing the news, from her hospital
bed in Penang, northern Malaysia.
However, her husband - who was swept out to sea with her - is still missing.
Doctors were stunned to discover, on giving Malawati medical checks following
her rescue, that she was 18 weeks pregnant.
The foetus was alive and healthy, said Helena Tuanakotta, the Indonesian vice
consul in Penang.
I saw sharks around me but prayed they wouldn't hurt me
Malawati
Malawati has also been giving more details of her five days at sea.
"I almost drowned twice as I could not swim and was thrashing in the water
trying to keep my head up when I chanced upon the tree truck," she told The
Star Online.
She survived by eating the fruit and bark of the sago palm she clung to.
"I slipped twice but managed to hold on," she was quoted as saying by Reuters
news agency. "I saw sharks around me but prayed they wouldn't hurt me."
Malawati said she was looking forward to going home to Indonesia's Aceh
province, but Ms Tuanakotta said the coconut farmer would probably stay in
Malaysia until some of her relatives in Aceh are found.
On Wednesday, another Indonesian survivor of the tsunami arrived in Malaysia.
Rizal Shahputra, 23, spent nine days at sea clinging to floating driftwood
before being picked up by a passing container ship.
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