By Matt Kelly

WPD paramedics deliver healthy baby in ambulance while on route to hospital

Jul 28, 2016 | 7:00 PM

Delivering a baby in an ambulance is not a call many paramedics expect to get, but two Battlefords paramedics did just that.

Early in the morning on Wednesday, July 26, paramedics for WPD Ambulance in North Battleford Richard Kenkel and Tara Amundsen were called to the Saulteaux First Nation north of the Battlefords where a woman in her third trimester was having contractions.

“(We) thought we could maybe get to the hospital in time. We got her into the ambulance and not five houses down she started pushing so we stopped the ambulance, I came into the back with (Amundsen) and we both helped assist in delivering the child,” Kenkel said.

According to Kenkel, the actual birth was fairly straightforward with no complications for the mother or baby.

“They’re both fine. The baby was pink and crying very vigorously. There were no complications with the birth; it went very smoothly, very quickly and they’re both happy and healthy,” Kenkel said.

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He added it may be a rare case where a paramedic needs to deliver a baby, but it is part of the training Advanced Care Paramedics (ACP) have to go through.

“As an ACP we do stints in the delivery room. I did five days, I’ve done numerous deliveries there and we have a lot of academic portions studying obstetrics and gynecology and stuff like that,” he explained.

Kenkel and Amundsen paid a visit to the mother and child in the hospital on Thursday to see how the two were doing and to bring a gift.

Matt Kelly is battlefordsNOW’s town municipal affairs and community reporter. He can be reached at mkelly@jpbg.ca.

by Matt Kelly

WPD paramedics deliver healthy baby in ambulance while on route to hospital

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