167 and still counting.
I 've helped bring 167 babies into this world since my first days as a Mid-wife back in 1976, a few in a bit of hurry to arrive BUT NONE can match the twins from yesterday morning.
Yesterday being my usual and boring Grocery Shopping Excursion, I decided to take a squiz at the Newly Opened K-Mart Store in the Complex where I get my Groceries.
Whilst wandering around and checking things out, I walked by a very heavily pregnant woman.
She was looking slightly uncomfortable, as can only be expected, and a bit distressed so I asked her if she needed any help.
Her response was, " I'm due any day now, I'm carrying twins, they will be my second and third children, Oh, shit, my waters have just broken, call an Ambulance please, I need a Mid-wife fast, they are coming now."
Thanks to the Staff we managed to get her to the Staff Break room, got her settled on a stack of new new sheets just in the nick of time.
I said to her, " Well, the Ambos are being called right now, you've got a Trained and Qualified Mid-wife standing right here, all I need to help you is a good scrub of my hands with a decent dose of Hand Sanitizer and with your permission we can go ahead."
Her reply was a bit surprising, " Bugger the Ambos, just wash your hands and let's get this done PLEASE."
15 minutes later, I placed her twins daughter into her arms, wrapped in, as we learned a few minutes later, the MOST expensive towels in the Store, placentas expelled and packaged up in a Toiletries bag, the Ambulance arrived 25 minutes later due to the first being dispatched having an engine failure as it left the Depot and the other being already transporting a Patient to the Hospital.
Babies and Mum are doing fine, Dad arrived at hospital as the second Ambulance arrived there with their 23 month old son still in his pajamas looking quite flustered and surprised to say the very least.
As for me, well it will be Groceries Day this morning due to an 'unexpected ' disruption....LOL.
Followed, later today with an invited visit to the Hospital to see Mum and these 2 new babies again PLUS getting the great Honour of being allowed to hold them, this time, clean and smelling as new born babies always do.
And we will now get the chance to introduce ourselves to one another as well.