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Home birth mum meets up with paramedics who delivered baby Luca
‘Within four minutes of the crew arriving, they had delivered the baby’
Christian and Jessica Roberts have met up with the East of England Ambulance Service crew that delivered their second baby. The baby was born at their home in Sawtry on January 20 with the help of paramedics Leajo Phillipson, Stuart & Sarah-Jayne Parsons, apprentice paramedic Beth Walesby and emergency care assistants Amy Rengert and Chris Dundee.
Christian said: “Jessica had been in some discomfort earlier that day and had gone to the hospital.
“She did not meet the criteria for being kept in, so we came home.
“She was due to be admitted and induced on the 22nd, so we went home and carried on with our evening.
“However, around 7pm Jessica was getting more and more uncomfortable and things started progressing. Then at around 7:30pm, Jessica’s waters broke.
“I got Jessica downstairs, but it became evident that she was not going to be able to get in the car.
“I called an ambulance, and they arrived in about eight minutes. By that time Jessica was on the floor in the kitchen and the baby’s head was showing.
“The crew arrived, and they really looked after us, taking control of the situation and keeping us both calm.
“Within four minutes of the crew arriving, they had delivered the baby.
“Unfortunately, as Jessica was being taken to the ambulance, she began to bleed heavily. Once in the ambulance, Sarah-Jayne, and Bethany, worked incredibly hard to try and control the bleeding. This took a lot of their efforts all the way until Jessica was on the ward and passed over to the doctors and midwives.”
The baby was born at their home in Sawtry on January 20 with the help of Paramedics Leajo Phillipson, Stuart & Sarah-Jayne Parsons, Apprentice Paramedic Beth Walesby and Emergency Care Assistants Amy Rengert and Chris Dundee.
Mother and baby are now doing well and recently returned to Huntingdon Ambulance Station to meet with some of the crew who helped deliver Luca, who is now over six months old.
Christian said: “They did a great job, all the team were amazing, and we are incredibly grateful for the hard work they all did, as the situation could have been very different. “We are so pleased that we managed to meet up with them again and show our appreciation and for them to see what they had achieved, said Jessica.
Paramedic Sarah-Jayne Parsons said: “Once on the scene, everything happened very fast, and the baby came very quickly.
“Then once we had established baby Luca was OK, we had to take care of Jessica.
“It was really great to see the three of them again and to see Mum and Luca doing so well.”
