Home Birth Stories

Home birthing is becoming more commonplace in western society, either by accident, or through careful planning, paramedics are delivering more and more babies at home. These are some true home birthing stories from the babies that I have delivered out hospital, often in strange places (sometimes at various people’s home).

Home Birth Stories…

Dispatch… “ Car 383… we have a 32 year old female who states her waters have broken and she is about to have a baby”

Car 383… “Copy that… on case…” – we both knew that it was fairly unlikely that we would end up delivering this baby out of the hospital, but like all good paramedics… we’d really rather be sure that we didn’t get stuck with our baby catching mittens on… so we ran, lights and sirens to this job.

When we arrived we were met by the expected mother at the front door of the house, who invited us in and told us that she was ready to have her baby…

I looked at her… she was still fully dressed… and didn’t appear distressed at all… I started to think maybe braxton hicks contractions… but told her straight away, that so long as she was already up, we may as well get going, so that the doctor and midwife can look after her…

She smiles at me, and responds… no… I’m about to have the baby now… 

I smile and explain that we’ll get everything ready… if she wants to lay on the stretcher, we’ll start heading to the hospital…

She smiles back again… no,  I’ve had four babies before this one… they all come out within 5 minutes of my waters breaking…. she then walks inside and starts to take her pants off…. then she asks if I can support her while she is squatting…

Literally, as she takes her underwear off… the baby’s head starts to crown.

She then litterally pushes this baby out in one go….

After this… she passes the baby to me and tells me that she’s off to get cleaned up… while I tidy the baby up…

Baby was born perfectly normally, with an APGAR score of 10… the mum, unperturbed by the whole thing, and wonders off to tidy up…