I see her point. if gave her something to focus on and she could see progress. makes sense to me.

Uber are great and sounds like she didn’t realise the baby was as close to coming as it was. For my first we had to call a taxi. It felt like a very long ride.

We always drove to the hospital with our imminent deliveries – one was born 10 minutes after arrival. Ambulances were something we had never factored into the equation and couldn’t afford. However, all’s well that ends well.
Still find it hard to call an ambulance – if you need to go to a specific hospital because that’s where all your records are, chances are the ambulance won’t take you there.

Each to their own, as long as mum and bub are fine though I would have called an ambulance.

I wonder what the Uber driver was really thinking lol. Glad both are safe & well.

I would have called an ambulance instead of Uber.

I don’t know about calling an Uber over an Ambo… I’ve had to call an ambulance a couple times (once after giving birth on my patio) and each time they were able to tell me how long and where exactly they were. At the very least the ambulance would have had paramedics on board who could have assisted with the birth if necessary. Also they do have a siren used to get through traffic. At 2:30am traffic should have been okay, even if it was a weekend.

Obviously the Mum didn’t relaise she was actually in Labour.
Often when Mums go to the hospital they are checked and sent home again. – e.g. I know one lady in labour was vomitting and could hardly move because of it, yet the sent her home. They reckoned they didn’t have any beds. She couldn’t have cared if she had been on a stretcher near the nurse’s station. In the end her husband them, said no if no buts they were going back in. Final result was an emergency C-Section.

This is a story I have heard of for the first time! She must have not thought about the consequences, but it is true that sometimes ambulances do take a while to arrive and she might have not had the money to cover the ambulance fee

That is something unusual. But if they didn’t have ambulance insurance, it makes perfect sense to me.

I suspect she might not have been thinking all that clearly at the time…

I don’t know anyone who’s had kids who’s called an ambulance while in Labour. We also drove – both times- to the hospital. Also, if you’re not in private insurance don’t you have to pay an arm and a leg for an ambulance. If people also weren’t expected to wait until the last minute to arrive in the hospital, then there would be less chance of anything going wrong. I said good on them for leaving the ambulance to those who were more needy.

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  • • mom82487 replied
    • 05 Jul 2016 , 8:31 pm

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  After my 3rd baby was born before we got to the hospital, I looked up some figures and found out it happens in only about 4 in a 100 births.
  We definitely did not leave it too late. I knew I laboured fast, and had had advice previously that as soon as my contractions were five minutes apart get to the hospital pronto. In this third labour, my contractions suddenly went from ten minutes apart and making sure everything was ready to go to the hospital that night, to five minutes apart and calling our babysitter, to less than an hour later the baby being born.

An ambulance would have been better, but sometimes ambulances can take ages to arrive.

Stroke of luck that they made it in time and there were no delays.