Two officers from the Petrer (Alicante) Local Police helped with a birth inside a car near the exit leading to the Loma Badá district on the A-31 motorway.
Around 11:09 p.m. on Tuesday night, December 16th, a 33-year-old pregnant woman started to feel contractions. She and her partner got in a car and drove “from Alicante to the Elda Hospital” since they both “preferred” that the birth take place there.
The same sources said that when they were already on their way, at the exit to Loma Badá off the motorway, a few kilometres from the hospital, the woman urged the father-to-be to stop the car because she thought the baby “was on its way.”
They further said that when they stopped the car, they called the emergency number 112, which then told the Petrer Local Police. The officers quickly hurried to the place where the woman was in labour and helped with the delivery until the baby was born, following the orders of medical staff.
The patrol stayed with the woman and child and gave them a thermal blanket until an ambulance from the Emergency Medical Assistance Service (SAMU) came and took the mother to Elda Hospital. Her and her child are both “in good condition.”
The police department in this Alicante town has said that the policemen who helped with this birth are “excited” since this is a “very beautiful” intervention that “only happens once in a professional life,” since it doesn’t happen very often.
They also said that the job of local police officers isn’t just to patrol the streets and keep the peace; they also have to do things like help with births like this one, always following medical advice. They came to the conclusion that “the baby was in a hurry to come out.”
Author: Derek Appleton
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