First light births

PARAMEDICS helped welcome a little boy into the world after a woman went into labour at her Doveton home last week.
Advanced life support paramedics from Berwick and intensive care paramedics from Hampton Park were called to the woman’s home just after 6am on Thursday to find she was already in the advanced stages of labour.
Intensive care paramedic Lisa McColl said it all happened, “incredibly quickly.”
“We arrived and found the woman in her bedroom and coping well with the pain,” she said.
“Her waters broke and just as we were setting up our equipment the little boy’s head started to show. Then with the next contraction he was born all within about 10 minutes of us arriving.”
Ms McColl said the baby’s father was also at home at the time of the birth.
“We offered to let him cut his son’s umbilical cord, but he said he was more than happy for us to do it,” she said.
“The baby was healthy, came out crying and a good colour.”
The mother, aged in her 20s, and her son were then taken to Monash Medical Centre.
A second baby was also delivered by paramedics within half an hour of the birth in Doveton.
Paramedics were called to a Briar Hill home just before 6.30am.
“The 29-year-old mother wasn’t in too much pain and the little girl’s head was already out when we arrived,” said paramedic Georgie Fogarty.
“Within five minutes the baby was delivered and dad was there to cut his daughter’s umbilical cord.”