Post by Logan on Jan 23, 2016 4:47:27 GMT -6
Mom gives birth at home in winter storm after 2 hospitals sent her home
Nine months pregnant, Amanda Anderson began having contractions about two minutes apart Thursday, and she assumed her third child would arrive soon, in advance of the predicted snow and ice storm.
But when she and her fiancé went to two hospitals, Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and Carolinas HealthCare System Lincolnton, they were sent home because doctors and nurses said she wasn’t ready, that her cervix wasn’t dilated enough.
Hours later, at 7:37 a.m. Friday, with snow and ice covering the roads, Anderson gave birth on the couch at her parents’ Cornelius home. She was surrounded by her fiancé, her mother, father and grandmother and about a half dozen paramedics and firefighters.
Shortly after the birth, paramedics drove mother and baby, Annabelle Jade Sutton, to Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center, the closest hospital. Both are doing well, resting and basking in the celebrity of being interviewed by local TV and newspaper reporters.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article56135330.html
Nine months pregnant, Amanda Anderson began having contractions about two minutes apart Thursday, and she assumed her third child would arrive soon, in advance of the predicted snow and ice storm.
But when she and her fiancé went to two hospitals, Lake Norman Regional Medical Center and Carolinas HealthCare System Lincolnton, they were sent home because doctors and nurses said she wasn’t ready, that her cervix wasn’t dilated enough.
Hours later, at 7:37 a.m. Friday, with snow and ice covering the roads, Anderson gave birth on the couch at her parents’ Cornelius home. She was surrounded by her fiancé, her mother, father and grandmother and about a half dozen paramedics and firefighters.
Shortly after the birth, paramedics drove mother and baby, Annabelle Jade Sutton, to Novant Health Huntersville Medical Center, the closest hospital. Both are doing well, resting and basking in the celebrity of being interviewed by local TV and newspaper reporters.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article56135330.html