Turbulent birth on the B49 - unusual use in the Gießen district

Created: 11/27/2022, 10:02 am

By: Constantin Hoppe

The child and parents were then taken to the hospital in an ambulance.

© Julian Stratenschulte/dpa/symbol picture

Unusual assignment for the advance helpers of the Buseck volunteer fire brigade: They helped with the birth of a baby on the B49.

Buseck

- When it comes to when and where a baby decides to be born, parents have little say.

A couple experienced this on Bundesstraße 49. On Thursday in the early hours of the morning, their child was in such a hurry to see the light of day that the parents-to-be did not make it to the hospital in time, as reported by giessener-allgemeine.de .

Instead, they stopped their car in the area of ​​the freeway entrance to the A5 between Buseck and Reiskirchen and made an emergency call.

Alarmed by the rescue control center at 5:57 a.m. with the rather unusual keyword "beginning birth", two advance helpers from the Buseck volunteer fire brigade rushed to the unplanned place of birth.

Gießen district: Parents no longer reach the hospital in time - birth on the side of the road

Thorsten Hansmann and his comrade secured the parked vehicle and supported the parents-to-be during the birth.

Just a few minutes after the arrival of the emergency services, who were also alerted, the baby was safely delivered.

The child and parents then went to the hospital in an ambulance - all three are doing well.

For the volunteers, too, it was anything but an everyday assignment: "In the 20 years that the advance helpers have been around, we've never had anything like this," says Hansmann.

And that with more than 300 operations a year.

(con/pm)