The eight days of life and almost death of Ana

Ana just got out of the hospital.

She is fine now, but eight days later she had the shock of her life.

It all started at eleven o'clock on Sunday night.

Ana had just finished dinner, she urinated and her parents, Cristian Boix, 36, and Nerea García, 22, decided to give her a bath.

Taking her out of the water, the baby "began to relax," recalls her father.

"She fell asleep, she changed color," she details.

Nerea began to get nervous.

"And I with her," says Cristian.

In less than three minutes, she "went from white to purple."

They called 112, an ambulance, a taxi... Time seemed eternal.

With what they were wearing, short sleeves, clothes to be around the house, Cristian and Nerea went down to the portal, desperate, with Ana in their arms.

The ambulance did not arrive.

“They passed us from one to another,” Nerea complains.

Until a neighbor saw a car from the Mossos d'Esquadra.

At the wheel was Sergi Flores, 33 years old.

"It was a coincidence of life," explains the policeman.

He was patrolling through Terrassa with his partner and decided to go through Nerea, Cristian and Ana's street, as he could have turned in any other direction.

"A neighbor required us," recalls Sergi.

"Inside the portal there was a couple and they had a baby who was not breathing, who was blue," he describes.

Sergi and Cristian agree that the father, very nervous, had a hard time letting go of Ana. “If you 're a

, you're a

,” argues Cristian, fearing that Sergi didn't know what to do either.

But Sergi is not only a

, he is a nurse.

And in addition to being a nurse, before entering the police school, he worked for 10 years in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Corachan clinic.

Just hearing "I'm a nurse", Cristian gave him the baby.

Sergi took Ana, gave her resuscitation, with two fingers squeezing her sternum and then gently hitting her back.

Ana began to breathe, her color returned, and she began to cry.

Her father, too.

An ambulance took Ana to the hospital, where she has been under observation.

“First they told us that maybe it was a digestion cut, then maybe something similar to sudden death and then maybe a change in temperature,” says Nerea.

The baby has been hospitalized for two days and everything is fine.

Just being discharged, she went with her parents to the Mossos police station in Terrassa and they met with Sergi, who already visited them at dawn, the same night of the worst scare of Ana's and her parents' short lives. .

“In a second she saved his life”, thanks Cristian.

Sergio smiles.

"It was a miracle, destiny," adds Nerea, while Ana, busy at 10 days of her life, dedicates herself to breastfeeding.

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