“When we were called, we knew it was for childbirth.
We were told the lady wanted to push.
So we went for it.
Sergeant Célia Carrier, from the Nanteuil-le-Haudouin rescue center (Oise), will remember this night all her life.
This Wednesday, she helped bring life inside the firefighters' rescue and victim assistance vehicle (VSAV).
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The couple, residents of Nanteuil-le-Haudouin, had returned from Senlis maternity in the early evening.
"It will not be tonight," they were assured on the spot.
Labor had indeed started but the baby seemed to want to stay warm in his mother's womb.
But the birth is imminent and the parents want to entrust the future three-year-old big brother to the grandparents.
An appointment is given halfway, in the parking lot of the Lidl supermarket in Lagny-le-Sec.
Lagny-le-Sec, Wednesday at 1:30 am The little Léandro made skin to skin with his mother in the fire truck where he was born.
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But at 1:10 am, the mother knows that the youngest will not wait to return to the maternity ward to show the tip of his nose.
It will be now.
She then asks the father to call the fire department.
“When we arrived, the lady was in the passenger seat, her legs on the dashboard.
We were beginning to see the head.
She said:
There he is.
Between two contractions, she manages to slip onto the stretcher with the help of my colleagues, Warrant Officer Patrice Bessirard and Staff Sergeant Jérémy Léger.
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"It was the most agonizing ten seconds of my life"
The 29-year-old volunteer firefighter has certainly already benefited from training and has already attended births performed by emergency doctors.
But this childbirth alone was a first.
“I just had time to put on my gloves and my gown.
She pushed twice and he came out.
I was waiting for him to cry.
It was the most agonizing ten seconds of my life.
When I heard his screams, it was magic.
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Léandro was born in good health.
And the dad was even able to cut the cord before the firefighter's nurse arrived, closely followed by a Samu team.
The mother was thus able to be taken care of at Senlis maternity.
The couple promised to come and thank the three firefighters at the rescue center as soon as the family recovered from their emotions.
