Had this job a few nights ago......
Got call to an abdo pain. Notes on the job was 22yo female with abdo pain. Arrive on scene and family come out and say, "She has just had a baby in the toilet".
As nothing was mentioned in the notes about pregnancy, both my partner and I are thinking miscarriage. So we grab our kits (and take the maternity one just in case) and head up the stairs.
At the top of the stairs I can hear crying (I'm first in as I am treating). Then walk into the bathroom and see the pt sitting on the toilet holding her stomach. But I can still hear the crying and it's not from her (has everyone figured out where this is going yet). Then I realise it is a baby crying!
I get the pt to stand a little so I can see where the baby is (thinking it might only be partly delivered) and find the poor little fella head first in the toilet bowl. That's right, mum had delivered and then sat back on teh toilet as if nothing had happened. Right now the bub it head first in the toilet, with the water up to his forehead, thrashing his legs around and crying.
So I 'fish' the newborn out of the loo, we clamp the cord and cut it just as mum delivers the placenta (which I ain't gonna fish out of the loo). Once out of the toilet, the bub stops crying and just looks at me like, 'thank god I'm outta there'.
We then start talking to mum who states she didn't know she was pregnant, but states no period for atleast 7 months, with abdo pain for last 1/7 (possibly labour).:wacko:
So we transport to hopsital after giving a heads up over the radio that we are coming in with...... '22 yo female with spontaneous delivery of child into toilet'.
Once we get to the hospital the nurses/doctors can't believe the story, as can our work mates back at station.
The pt was a single Chinese female, who stated she didn't know who the father was. Had only been in the country for 8 months.
At last report, mum and bub doing fine.
That was a crap night for us (no pun intended, it just was a bad night).
Got call to an abdo pain. Notes on the job was 22yo female with abdo pain. Arrive on scene and family come out and say, "She has just had a baby in the toilet".
As nothing was mentioned in the notes about pregnancy, both my partner and I are thinking miscarriage. So we grab our kits (and take the maternity one just in case) and head up the stairs.
At the top of the stairs I can hear crying (I'm first in as I am treating). Then walk into the bathroom and see the pt sitting on the toilet holding her stomach. But I can still hear the crying and it's not from her (has everyone figured out where this is going yet). Then I realise it is a baby crying!
I get the pt to stand a little so I can see where the baby is (thinking it might only be partly delivered) and find the poor little fella head first in the toilet bowl. That's right, mum had delivered and then sat back on teh toilet as if nothing had happened. Right now the bub it head first in the toilet, with the water up to his forehead, thrashing his legs around and crying.
So I 'fish' the newborn out of the loo, we clamp the cord and cut it just as mum delivers the placenta (which I ain't gonna fish out of the loo). Once out of the toilet, the bub stops crying and just looks at me like, 'thank god I'm outta there'.
We then start talking to mum who states she didn't know she was pregnant, but states no period for atleast 7 months, with abdo pain for last 1/7 (possibly labour).:wacko:
So we transport to hopsital after giving a heads up over the radio that we are coming in with...... '22 yo female with spontaneous delivery of child into toilet'.
Once we get to the hospital the nurses/doctors can't believe the story, as can our work mates back at station.
The pt was a single Chinese female, who stated she didn't know who the father was. Had only been in the country for 8 months.
At last report, mum and bub doing fine.
That was a crap night for us (no pun intended, it just was a bad night).
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