When we calculate our baby’s due date, we usually try to plan what the logistics will be like for that day and the days before, to try to be as well prepared as possible. However, as we have seen many times, we can plan one thing and the baby have completely different plans .
For example, the impressive video of a mother having a hasty labor right in the clinic parking lot , just a few steps from the door and that was captured by a security camera.
Susan Anderson and her husband were rushing to the Natural Birthworks clinic in Florida, USA because she had started to go into labor with her second baby and began to feel the need to push .
The plan was that as with her first child, her baby would be born at the clinic, however, the baby and her body had other plans, as Susan barely made it to the clinic parking lot and had her baby right there .
This incredible delivery, as well as the reactions of those who attended it, were captured on video thanks to the security camera that is placed at the door of the clinic and that was shared for dissemination with the mother’s permission:
In the video, you can see the midwife Sandra Lovania assisting the mother, when two policemen who were on the other side of the street approach to verify that everything was alright. Sandra calmly replies that Susan is fine, that she is their midwife and that she is about to have her baby.
She had barely finished telling them this, when to everyone’s amazement, Susan’s baby decided to be born right there, with the midwife catching her in her hands just in time . Then, she handed the baby over to the mother, who held her tightly as they continued to walk slowly toward the entrance of the clinic to perform all postpartum care.
At the end of the video, you can see how a second midwife arrives running who was supposed to be assisting the delivery, but as we could see, the baby decided that she would not wait another moment. The clinic confirmed that both mother and baby are healthy and very well.
Midwives explain what happened
Although Susan gave permission to share her video to show the nature of women’s bodies, what they did not expect was that it would go viral, being shared on social networks and many local and national media.
Naturally, many doubts arise and some people even doubted its veracity, due to how quickly everything happened and feeling that there were many strange details.
So precisely to clarify all doubts and share their experience from the professional point of view , midwives Sandra (who caught the baby at birth) and Gelena (who did not arrive in time) shared a video on the YouTube channel of the clinic.
In it, they explain that Susan’s delivery is known as “precipitated labor ,” in which labor is very short and the baby is delivered much faster than in other deliveries. Typically, a precipitous labor lasts three hours or less from the start of contractions.
Also, they clarify a question that many people had: how did the baby come out if the mother had her clothes on? , to which Sandra replied that it was something intentional. Seeing that the head was about to come out, instead of trying to remove her clothes, she decided to just push them aside with her hand, both to allow the baby to pass, and to prevent her from coming out quickly and falling to the ground.
As for why they let her continue walking instead of bringing her a wheelchair or stretcher, both midwives explain that due to the speed of the delivery, Sandra was the only one available to assist her and between deciding to go for the chair and leaving them alone. or help the mother walk to prevent the mother from falling or stumbling, she chose to stay with her .
In the end, everything went well, mom and baby are healthy at home and this video definitely reminds us that women’s bodies are incredible and the patience and professionalism of midwives is admirable .
Via | NBC
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