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