Overdue mum gives birth in ambulance

by Juley-Ann Collins ©Fingal-Independent.ie
Two Swords-based paramedics helped a Balbriggan mother give birth to her fourth child in a ambulance after they were forced to pull over on route to bringing the overdue woman to hospital after her waters broke. Malahide paramedics Tom McLoughlin and Aidan McGrath were on duty last Thursday with the Dublin Fire Brigade and ambulance service when they were called from their base at the Swords Fire Station to a collect the mother in Balbriggan.
'We received a call for a maternity case in Balbriggan where an overdue mother was going to give birth to her fourth child,' Tom told the Fingal Independent.
'The patient was on route to the Rotunda Hospital when it became quite clear that she wasn't going to make it. We pulled in opposite The Comet in Santry just past Whitehall Church and she gave birth.' Tom spent 15 years volunteering his time on a part-time basis to his local station before he took up his full-time position in Swords six years ago. He is also currently half way through studying a masters in health and safety in DCU. Aidan has been working alongside him for the past three years and it was both their first time to deliver a baby in the back of an ambulance.
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