The ambulance arrived faster than the doctors left the hospital to help the young mother.
“I think I’m giving birth,” – after these words of his wife, David Patrick immediately jumped behind the wheel of the car and took Sarah Rose to the hospital. The doctor, whom his wife called, assured that the maternity ward was open around the clock and they needed to go there urgently: all the signs indicated that the couple’s firstborn was about to be born. A car with a woman writhing in labor arrived at the maternity hospital at about 2 am. The hospital doors were locked. No matter how David and Sarah knocked, nobody opened it.
“We tried to get to another entrance, because there must be at least something open. But the light was off, and there was not a single unlocked door. We decided that we need to go to the emergency room (something like an emergency room with us. – Approx. Ed.), ”- says David in a conversation with Yahoo Life.
Supporting his wife, David walked slowly towards the car. But the contractions were getting stronger, Sarah Rose could hardly move her legs.
“We hobble to the car, right in front of the locked doors to the maternity ward, when my wife suddenly stops abruptly, leans on me with all her weight and says that her water has broken,” recalls David. – She almost faints, I try to hold her, but she slides down, lies on the asphalt in the fetal position.
The terrified man dialed 911. While the ambulance was on the way, David tried to help his wife, following the instructions of the emergency dispatcher.
“Sarah Rose no longer just moaned, she screamed out loud. Her screams echoed throughout the street. I saw a bloody stream that ran from under it towards the sewer grates, ”continues David.
When the dispatcher told David to take off Sarah’s pants, she initially resisted. It’s no joke – she’s lying in the middle of the street, even though she’s giving birth at night. “Sweetheart, you need to take off your pants,” – nevertheless, they managed to persuade her. And when David pulled off his wife’s pants, he saw the top of their son’s head.
“Then I saw the face, and after ten seconds it all slipped into my arms like a wet fish.” The young dad did not even think that he would have to take delivery.
David wrapped his son – yes, a boy was born – in a jacket. And Sarah instinctively took the baby and pulled it to her chest.
“As soon as I saw him, I thought that he would freeze! It’s early May outside, it’s night. The way my son was born, I never wanted this for my baby. I wanted to somehow comfort him, warm him up, ”says Sarah. The consolation worked: the boy clung to his mother’s chest.
The dispatcher, meanwhile, was explaining to David that the umbilical cord had to be tied. And that was the problem – there was nothing to bandage with. There was nothing suitable in the hospital bag.
“My wife and I wear masks from the coronavirus that my grandmother made for us. And at that moment we were both in them, of course. Sarah took off hers, handed it to me, she says, tie it up. I twisted the mask into a tight tourniquet and tied the umbilical cord as tightly as I could, ”- the adventures of young parents are not over yet.
And only at that moment an ambulance drove up, and doctors and nurses came out of the maternity ward – it seems that the screams that stood on the whole street did not bother them at all.
“The main thing is that we finally got inside, everything was fine with my wife and son,” says Patrick.
The boy was named Navi, a reference to the Yiddish word for “prophet”. And the middle name is Bond. Baby Bond, as his parents affectionately call him. Soon, all three were already at home, and now David and Sarah Rose are hoping with all their might that extreme in the near future in their lives will no longer be. By the way, Navi is the third child of the couple. But such an experience of childbirth is the first time for both.