Expectant mother tries to kill herself and unborn child by swallowing 30 razor blades after row with Chinese husband’s parents

A pregnant Vietnamese woman who is married to a Chinese man tried to kill herself and her unborn child by swallowing 13 razor blades after quarrelling with her husband’s parents, mainland media reports.

The 27-year-old woman was rushed to hospital at 9pm on Sunday night and underwent more than two hours of surgery to successfully retrieve all of the blades – the longest of which measured more than 3 centimetres, Zhejiang Radio reported.

Both the mother and her unborn child are expected to make a full recovery.

The parents of the woman’s husband told the radio station that she had never wanted to have a baby and had acted impulsively by buying and swallowing razor blades.