Ravenfire
15-04-2005, 05:33 PM
Angel told me about this last night and I heard more on the radio this morning:
An eight-year-old girl has been praised by ambulance staff - after helping her mother to deliver a baby.
Officials said Melissa Farrelly, 34, of Heybridge, Essex, had been unaware that she was pregnant when her daughter Hope rang for help on April 4.
Operator Sarah Dearing said: "When Hope came on the line all she said was that her Mummy had a lot of pain in her tummy.
"While colleagues despatched an emergency care practitioner and an ambulance to the address, I stayed on the line with Hope.
"Four minutes after the call started Hope told me that a head had appeared and that Mummy was having a baby.
"Despite all that Hope went to get blankets to wrap her new baby brother up and was able to tell me that he was breathing. That was confirmed a minute later when we heard baby Sonny cry, which was a very good sign."
On a tape released by Essex Ambulance Service, Hope can be heard saying: "There's a baby coming out of her - ohh Mum!...There's a baby coming out of mum...No...ohh my God mum, you've got a baby."
Hope, who admitted the experience had been "a bit scary at first" said: "I was quite shocked when the baby's head appeared, but I helped Mummy to pull him out. The lady on the phone said I should get some blankets so I did.
"I think Mummy was quite brave because she helped me."
Mrs Farrelly, who has three other children, added: "I had woken up that morning with a bad stomach ache but did not think too much of it.
"You read about people having babies when they did not realise it and you think - yeah right, but now I will be a bit more sympathetic towards them
An eight-year-old girl has been praised by ambulance staff - after helping her mother to deliver a baby.
Officials said Melissa Farrelly, 34, of Heybridge, Essex, had been unaware that she was pregnant when her daughter Hope rang for help on April 4.
Operator Sarah Dearing said: "When Hope came on the line all she said was that her Mummy had a lot of pain in her tummy.
"While colleagues despatched an emergency care practitioner and an ambulance to the address, I stayed on the line with Hope.
"Four minutes after the call started Hope told me that a head had appeared and that Mummy was having a baby.
"Despite all that Hope went to get blankets to wrap her new baby brother up and was able to tell me that he was breathing. That was confirmed a minute later when we heard baby Sonny cry, which was a very good sign."
On a tape released by Essex Ambulance Service, Hope can be heard saying: "There's a baby coming out of her - ohh Mum!...There's a baby coming out of mum...No...ohh my God mum, you've got a baby."
Hope, who admitted the experience had been "a bit scary at first" said: "I was quite shocked when the baby's head appeared, but I helped Mummy to pull him out. The lady on the phone said I should get some blankets so I did.
"I think Mummy was quite brave because she helped me."
Mrs Farrelly, who has three other children, added: "I had woken up that morning with a bad stomach ache but did not think too much of it.
"You read about people having babies when they did not realise it and you think - yeah right, but now I will be a bit more sympathetic towards them