Little Nathan did not wait, too eager to meet his parents, he arrived two weeks early, legs forward in his daddy’s car, even before arriving at the hospital. Mélody, the mother pushed, her feet on the dashboard.
Mélody and Stéphane are expecting their second son. The term is scheduled for December 23. The mother is convinced, her baby will arrive before, she puts everything on 8. The day before, Mélody does sports, stretching, goes to the osteopath. Only then, she was far from thinking that it was going to work as well …
Wednesday December 8, 6 a.m., Mélody feels the first contractions: “I put an application to assess the time between them and quite quickly, it told me that I would do well to go to the hospital”. But Mélody doesn’t feel excruciating pain, so she waits a bit. Until 7.20 am, when the young Niçoise loses water.
The baby arrives two weeks early
“I called my mother to come and babysit the first one who is three years old, and I told her that she had time to take a shower before coming”, explains Mélody. Half an hour later, the future grandmother arrives, except that there, Mélody’s contractions really intensified.
Nathan does not wait “- Mélody the young mother
The parents rush into the car. They must get to the hospital quickly. Especially since the baby is in the seat. The doctors have already warned Mélody and Stéphane that the delivery may be a bit complicated and that a special maneuver will have to be made to bring their son into the world.
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With all that in mind, Stéphane puts the gum down:“I had been driving for maybe two minutes and then she said to me:” I can feel a foot “”. Mélody lowered her pants, put her legs on the dashboard, put a towel on her and began to push.
A seat birth in the front of a car
“There I burned all the fires, I put myself on the emergency lane”, a scene worthy of the taxi movie. To relax the atmosphere, Mélody launches: “I’m going to give birth in your car”, her darling answers: “no big deal, these are leather seats”. The baby seems to have heard, after the foot, it is now the two legs that have come out.
“I put a hand in my darling’s womb to hold the baby, continuing to drive” – Stéphane, Nathan’s daddy
The child still has a stuck arm and head, “he was from behind, all gray, so I grabbed him and continued driving with one hand”, says Stéphane, tears in his voice. Arriving at the hospital with a bang, two midwives intervene very quickly and do the necessary maneuver without even waiting for a doctor, “it is thanks to them that our whole family is well, thank you a thousand times to Céline and Sophie”, concludes Mélody, a smile on her face.