While the population of central Brittany is demonstrating to keep the Carhaix hospital and its emergency services, stories of malfunctions are multiplying, as witnessed by this young woman from Plonévéz who had to give birth at home, after being sent back by the Quimper hospital…
Kimberley Tuaud and Damien Le Mouée are happy parents: two young girls aged 6 (Mïya) and 5 (Swaïly) who Shelsy joined almost three weeks ago, but the mother had to give birth at home, after the Quimper hospital refused to take charge…
A notable fact for the youngest: she was born in her parents’ living room in Plonévez-du-Faou! A look back at the night of Thursday 15 to Friday 16 August that the Le Mouée-Tuaud family will not soon forget!
“How do you let go of a person who is suffering?”
“Fortunately, it went well; maybe we came across the wrong person… What we want to emphasize is that the Quimper facility let go of a person who was suffering.” Fifteen days after Shelsy’s birth, the couple would like to have answers, but they remain vague.
Indeed, on August 15 at 11:30 p.m., Kimberley arrived at the Quimper hospital: “The due date was August 31. I am followed three times a week at the hospital by a midwife from Châteaulin, because Shelsy did not have much amniotic fluid”, knowing that Kimberley’s first two children were born prematurely.
For the latter, there is no doubt, the baby is coming, even if her waters have not broken. However, after an initial examination and a cervix open to four centimeters, the interns suggest that the future mother go for an hour’s walk or go home. “We decide to stay, but I am suffering so much that I am crying.”
Another check-up at two in the morning and the same observation: “My contractions have gotten worse, but for the interns, the “real” labor is not on the way. They ask us to go home and come back when it has started…”. Despite her protests, the couple therefore resign themselves to returning home, not without Kimberley getting her blood group card, “because there was no way I was coming back here!”
Shelsy is born at 4:01 a.m.
Back home at 3:15 a.m., Kimberley is still in pain. “Forty minutes later, my water breaks! I realize that I’m going to give birth at home.” Kimberley’s mother is there and calls the firefighters, who stay on the line, and Damien plays the role of midwife.
At 4:10 a.m., Shelsy cried out for the first time: “Imagine the relief!” Thirty minutes later, the Pleyben firefighters and the Carhaix emergency services took turns before sending the mother and newborn to the Carhaix hospital. “No one understood why they didn’t keep me,” Kimberley laments, not forgetting to thank the firefighters, emergency services managers and the Carhaix hospital staff for their kindness and competence. “As an explanation, they just told us that it was the procedure,” adds Damien.
The most important thing is that the mother and little Shelsy are doing great and the two older ones are proud of their little sister.
