Moselle. Lino was born in the bathtub because his father was delayed in traffic

Friday, July 19, everything is ready The Birth of Little Lino. Her mother Fiona was due to give birth in the maternity unit of the Thionville-Belair hospital. The suitcase was ready at the entrance of the Leloup family home in Langevos. Fiona had already put on her coat and shoes. All that was missing was her father Dean to be there to take him away. So she had to give birth to her older sister Mia, 8, and Mathis, 5, in the traditional way.

But Friday was a traffic jam day in Luxembourg. Dean was delayed. Fiona felt Birth is hasty. “I felt the contractions getting closer and closer, and then my water broke…” Faced with an emergency, Fiona decided to give birth at home. In order to avoid scaring the children, “I locked myself in the bathroom and got into the bathtub,” she said afterwards.

Clothespins for hanging ropes

Dean finally came. Mia explained the situation to him. While Fiona was in labor, Dean dialed 15 and described the situation to the firefighters. He placed Mia and her brother Mathis at the entrance of the house and gave them the responsibility of guiding them upstairs as soon as the firefighters arrived. He went into the bathroom with his wife and helped her with the guidance of the midwife on the phone. The baby’s head soon appeared, all purple, and one shoulder. “I didn’t know how to hold it because Lino’s body was so slippery, I used a towel,” he said. The midwife warned her: “The umbilical cord may not be in the right position, you need to slide your hand into it” “I don’t know what to feel, I’m not a doctor. » Fortunately, the second shoulder and the cord were rescued. “You need to pinch the umbilical cord,” the midwife continued. What? A clothespin, okay. “After getting the consent of the midwife on the phone, I placed the forceps 15 cm away from the baby and wrapped him in a few towels so that he would not feel cold,” Dean continued.

Then the firefighters arrived. “They gave me a pair of scissors so I could cut the rope myself!” » The baby is healthy, and so is Fiona. The midwife who was sent to the scene had to turn around.

This was Longover’s first home birth in decades.