SHE WON THE DOUBLE: A WOMAN GAVE BIRTH TO TWINS: THE FIRST - IN AN AMBULANCE IN ASHDOD, THE SECOND - IN THE PARKING LOT OF KAPLAN HOSPITAL
31-05-10 , 11:32
The mother in the middle with the midwife and the twins "Born 10 minutes apart in time and 10 km apart in distance"
Sapir Nino (34) an inhabitant of Ashdod, yesterday gave birth to twin girls. The first was born in an ambulance which was called for by her older children to take her to hospital, and the second at the entrance to the Emergency Room of Kaplan Hospital in Rechovot. The mother and twin girls are well.
"I woke up in the morning with an uncomfortable feeling" recalled Nino, "my 13 year old daughter and my 10 year old son called an ambulance. The paramedic who came told me that my contractions had begun, and quickly drove in the direction of Kaplan Hospital, where I wanted to give birth. In the middle of the journey they realized that the birth had begun and they transferred me to a mobile intensive care unit. The Paramedic, Ravit Keren, began the delivery and suddenly we heard crying. At this point everything stopped and we continued our journey to the Hospital with one baby girl who weighed 2.3kg at birth".
"At the entrance to Kaplan Hospital a medical team was already waiting for us and they ran to the ambulance to continue the delivery. The midwife, Renate, entered the ambulance and delivered the baby with great sensitivity and devotion and my second daughter was born weighing 1.7kg."
Renate Sarel, a senior midwife in Kaplan, related that she received a call from MDA that one baby had already been born and that the second was on the way."I immediately went out of the department to the entrance of the hospital and went into the ambulance. One baby was in the arms of the paramedic and the second baby I delivered in the ambulance. The mother was calm and felt well. By the way, this is the first time, after hundreds of deliveries, that I have delivered a baby in an ambulance" she pointed out emotionally.
"We checked the babies and saw that they were in good condition and were healthy. Then we transferred one baby to the nursery and the second one to the premature baby unit. Now the mother and babies are wonderful and perfectly healthy".
The happy mother sums up: "I feel completely safe here. They immediately wrapped the babies up warmly and cleaned them up. We are receiving devoted and kind care from the medical teams. The two babies were born ten minutes apart in time and ten kilometers in distance".