All’s well that ends well.
A 19-year-old woman, seven and a half months pregnant, began having contractions in the middle of the night while camping with her family and friends around Lake Gaube, at an altitude of 1,725 metres, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, retraces France Blue.
Called this Sunday at around 5:30 am via a satellite phone, the emergency services were only able to reach the expectant mother on foot two hours later, as the helicopter was unable to take off due to the adverse weather conditions.
“It was cold, it was raining”
“When we arrived, the baby was already born” under the tent, said Brigadier-Chief Pierre Foltier at the microphone of RTL. “One of her friends was an ambulance driver, so she helped her deliver the baby.”
“It was cold, it was raining. There was a risk of hypothermia for the baby and hemorrhage for the mother”, he continued, denouncing a “dangerous behavior”.
Healthy mother and baby
“She wasn’t too stressed, fortunately everything ended well. We are trained for this, but it’s true that it doesn’t happen every day.”confided another member of the CRS to France Blue.
The young mother, taken to Tarbes hospital with her family, is in good healthas was her son, Chris, who weighed 2.5 kilograms and was born prematurely at 36 weeks.
