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Baby makes its entrance as mini-van races to hospital
By Vito Pilieci, The Ottawa Citizen May 17, 2010 12:01 AM
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health...ces+hospital/3035761/story.html#ixzz0o9zLj3ZD
Jessica MacLean and her husband Richard Hough with their children Ian, 4, Emily, 2, and Steven, 1 day, who was born on the side of the road on Saturday night in the family mini-van.
Photograph by: Wayne Cuddington, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — It turns out mini-vans are good for more than just hauling around soccer gear.Richard Hough and his wife, Jessica MacLean, found out just how much leg room is needed to deliver a 7 pound 11 ounce baby when their trip to the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus on took an unexpected twist Saturday evening.
MacLean’s water broke en- route, and then the contractions became far stronger than she could handle.
“I told Richard to pull over,” she said from her hospital bed. “It was a little bit crazy. I’m not sure what I was thinking.”
The couple had made careful plans to get to the hospital. Their babysitters were on standby, and after going through labour with two other children they thought they knew how the scenario would play out.
When MacLean’s contractions began on Saturday around 6 p.m., they called the sitters. When the contractions were about seven minutes apart, the pair figured they had plenty of time to get to the hospital. Most doctors don’t recommend women experiencing a normal healthy pregnancy, arrive at hospital until their contractions are about five minutes apart.
With contractions still about seven minutes apart at 8:30, MacLean had had enough. The pair hopped into their brand new mini-van, bought just six weeks ago, and left their Riverside South home heading toward the hospital.
When they reached the stretch where Limebank Road becomes Riverside Drive, something wasn’t right.
“They (the contractions) went from seven minutes apart to four minutes apart,” she said, adding that at that point her water broke. “I was expecting things to go quickly but not that quickly.”
They pulled to the side of the road. Hough realized they wouldn’t make it to the hospital and they needed help. But, the couple don’t own a cellphone. So he ran out into traffic hoping to find someone who did. After a couple of tries, he succeeded.
He called 9-1-1 and was connected to an attendant that urged him to remain calm and make his wife comfortable.
“They wanted her lying back,” he said. “So I reclined the front back as far as it would go.”
Hough said he barely had enough time to get his wife’s seat reclined before the baby was born. He said paramedics arrived a few minutes later and immediately took over.
“Being born in a van was not the idea,” MacLean said.
To help out the new family, Ottawa paramedics cleaned out the interior of the Hough van and even filled the gas tank before bringing it to the hospital.
There, mother and baby — please meet Steven James Hough — were found to be in perfect health.
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
Baby makes its entrance as mini-van races to hospital
By Vito Pilieci, The Ottawa Citizen May 17, 2010 12:01 AM
Read more: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health...ces+hospital/3035761/story.html#ixzz0o9zLj3ZD
Jessica MacLean and her husband Richard Hough with their children Ian, 4, Emily, 2, and Steven, 1 day, who was born on the side of the road on Saturday night in the family mini-van.
Photograph by: Wayne Cuddington, The Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — It turns out mini-vans are good for more than just hauling around soccer gear.Richard Hough and his wife, Jessica MacLean, found out just how much leg room is needed to deliver a 7 pound 11 ounce baby when their trip to the Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus on took an unexpected twist Saturday evening.
MacLean’s water broke en- route, and then the contractions became far stronger than she could handle.
“I told Richard to pull over,” she said from her hospital bed. “It was a little bit crazy. I’m not sure what I was thinking.”
The couple had made careful plans to get to the hospital. Their babysitters were on standby, and after going through labour with two other children they thought they knew how the scenario would play out.
When MacLean’s contractions began on Saturday around 6 p.m., they called the sitters. When the contractions were about seven minutes apart, the pair figured they had plenty of time to get to the hospital. Most doctors don’t recommend women experiencing a normal healthy pregnancy, arrive at hospital until their contractions are about five minutes apart.
With contractions still about seven minutes apart at 8:30, MacLean had had enough. The pair hopped into their brand new mini-van, bought just six weeks ago, and left their Riverside South home heading toward the hospital.
When they reached the stretch where Limebank Road becomes Riverside Drive, something wasn’t right.
“They (the contractions) went from seven minutes apart to four minutes apart,” she said, adding that at that point her water broke. “I was expecting things to go quickly but not that quickly.”
They pulled to the side of the road. Hough realized they wouldn’t make it to the hospital and they needed help. But, the couple don’t own a cellphone. So he ran out into traffic hoping to find someone who did. After a couple of tries, he succeeded.
He called 9-1-1 and was connected to an attendant that urged him to remain calm and make his wife comfortable.
“They wanted her lying back,” he said. “So I reclined the front back as far as it would go.”
Hough said he barely had enough time to get his wife’s seat reclined before the baby was born. He said paramedics arrived a few minutes later and immediately took over.
“Being born in a van was not the idea,” MacLean said.
To help out the new family, Ottawa paramedics cleaned out the interior of the Hough van and even filled the gas tank before bringing it to the hospital.
There, mother and baby — please meet Steven James Hough — were found to be in perfect health.
© Copyright (c) The Ottawa Citizen
