A MUM who was wheeled into a hospital lift in labour told how she’d given birth in her trousers by the time it reached the first floor. Danielle Ford, 26, rushed back to the maternity ward when she felt her baby start to come after earlier being sent home as her waters hadn’t broken. Medics […]
A MUM who was wheeled into a hospital lift in labour told how she’d given birth in her trousers by the time it reached the first floor.
Danielle Ford, 26, rushed back to the maternity ward when she felt her baby start to come after earlier being sent home as her waters hadn’t broken.
Medics were on standby with a wheelchair as the NHS worker’s mum Shona Beattie drove them to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
But Danielle didn’t make the delivery suite in time and welcomed 7lb 1oz daughter Macy in the elevator just six minutes later.
The mum of two, from Cowdenbeath, said of the speedy delivery: “I went in the lift at level zero and by level one I had a baby.
“I actually didn’t even realise she had been born.”
“When they first gave her to me to hold for skin to skin I was just sitting there in shock.
“The nurses kept asking if I was OK but I just couldn’t believe it.”
Danielle returned to hospital just 15 minutes after arriving home from her first trip suffering labour pains.
She hailed her mum’s emergency dash for getting her to the health unit, where Macy made her superquick arrival after her waters broke.
She said: “We had phoned ahead to tell the ward we were coming because my waters broke in my mum’s car as we were driving back a second time.
“The nurses were talking to me through a speaker to try to help me control my breathing because obviously my mum was trying to concentrate on driving.
“We were just coming up to the hospital when I had the urge to push and I felt Macy’s head starting to come out. The nurses met me at the doors with a cot and wheelchair. I had to sit tilted so I didn’t squash Macy. I’m just glad it was in the lift with a little bit of privacy.
“If it wasn’t for mum going through two red lights Macy would have been born in the car.”
But she said her new arrival didn’t get to meet mobile mechanic dad Stuart Adsley, 24, until the following day because lockdown began as she was in hospital.
Recalling the March 23 birth, Danielle — also mum to Evah, three — said: “I’d spoken to Stuart in the car so he thought we were winding him up when I spoke to him on FaceTime six minutes later.
“I didn’t realise we were in lockdown until later on and he couldn’t come into the hospital because of it.
“After we’d had tests done it was midnight so we decided to stay and leave the next morning.”
She added: “The nurse who sent me away first time apologised and said she really didn’t think that I was in labour.
“But I’d had Eva with no pain relief so I knew it would happen quickly. My daughter has definitely given me a lockdown to remember.”
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