Way ahead of its time… Here’s how to qualify Owen, the first baby of the year 2023 born in the maternity ward of the Montluçon hospital center (Allier). His deadline was scheduled for February 13th, but the boy didn’t want to wait long, preferring to point the tip of his nose on the night of this Sunday January 1st.
The birth
Owen landed at exactly 12:55. I am thirty-four weeks pregnant and only 2,570 kg for this premature baby. But he and his mother are fine. The baby was immediately taken care of by the night teams of the Bouncy Kangaroo Unit, the neonatal service of the establishment.
“I was celebrating New Year’s Eve with my husband and my other children when I felt the contractions”, says the mother, a Montluçonnese already mother of two girls and five boys. “I waited a bit because I wasn’t entirely sure, and then it got more and more complicated, so we went to the hospital.” Admitted at 11.38pm, the young woman gave birth just over an hour later.
“Everything went well. Between the paramedics, the midwives, the pediatrician… I was very well surrounded. »
Owen’s mother
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Enough to calmly welcome this newcomer who is in a great hurry. “We didn’t expect it and were a little scared because it wasn’t due yet, but now he’s in good health and well cared for, that’s the most important thing.” Also important to note for the staff.
“This is an occasion to remember that mothers can give birth prematurely in Montluçon, that it is going well, that we have pediatricians on site and professionals to welcome them! »
Executioner Brigitte (midwife, far right in photo)
“It shows that our motherhood is working, with a good level of care,” she adds. Witness the 936 cherubs who gave their first cry there in 2022, up from 969 in 2021. As for Owen? He will remain between three weeks and a month under surveillance, cared for in the Kangaroo Unit… Time to recover from his very first emotions.
Luc Barre