“Friends and family told me it was a premeditated blow, but not at all! Think about it, ”says Charlotte Fabre, midwife practicing in Illange and domiciled in Volstroff. Nine months pregnant, the young woman had planned everything for the day of childbirth which was not to be long in coming. “I had to give birth in the maternity ward of the Metz-Mercy hospital center, breathes Charlotte Fabre. Having had an alert two days previously, my suitcase was ready to leave this Saturday, September 26th. At 8 am, her husband, Laurent Gress, laminator at Arcelor Mital in Belval, leads their 6-year-old son Gabriel to basketball practice. “And I decide to take my shower before leaving for the maternity ward,” continues the young woman. But the pocket of water broke in the shower! I then urgently called my husband and especially my collaborator at Illange, Clara Zimmermann, to come urgently to accompany me in the delivery… ”
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Rose was born at 10:04 a.m.
Accompanied by her friend, it is therefore at home that the midwife gives birth to her daughter Rose. It’s 10:04 am “And she’s in great shape!” », Smiles Charlotte Fabre. Warned, the Samu instructs the Metzervisse firefighters to drive the mother and baby to the Bel-Air maternity hospital in Thionville where they will spend two nights before returning to their home in Volstroff.
For Jean-Michel Magard, the mayor of a town for years in the midst of a demographic boom (no less than four births recorded last August by the town hall secretary): “It is a happy event, the last childbirth in Home having taken place twenty years ago here in Volstroff, and the baby of the time, Marie Lopera is today Atsem at the Saint-Exupéry school group in Volstroff. My congratulations to parents and grandparents, and best wishes to Rose. “
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