Xuzhou : An eight-month-old was lucky to survive after being stabbed 90 times by his mother on the face for biting her while she was breastfeeding him.

The incident was reported from Xuzhou, eastern China’s Jiangsu Province.

Xiao Bao, the infant, who lives with his mother and two uncles, needed more than 100 stitches. It was one of the uncles who discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital.

The child’s mother later confessed that she stabbed the baby after he bit her during breastfeeding.

Neighbours have pleaded with the local government to take the baby away, but they have said that they will not.

Apparently, they said that there was no confirmation the mother was suffering from a mental illness and said, regardless, the baby still has two guardians in the form of his two uncles.