Expectant Queensland mum forced to share ambulance with woman who’d just lost her baby
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The mom-to-be’s harrowing hospital run from hell as she rushes in an ambulance to deliver, along with a grieving woman who has just lost her baby.
- Jaymie Jenkins, 27, endured a ‘horror’ birth experience
- A blood clot developed at 3 cm dilation and she was taken to an ambulance.
- He traveled for two hours with a mother who has just lost her son
An Australian mum-to-be struggling to support her baby shared a traumatic two-hour ambulance ride with a woman who had just lost her own unborn child.
Jaymie Jenkins, 27, said she was horrified when she realized the other woman on the mercy trip was going home alone because her baby did not survive the birth.
She recalls that the grieving woman did not speak much during the long and terrifying drive in the rain along a ‘bumpy road’ from Gladstone to Rockhampton Hospital in central Queensland.
Jaymie Jenkins said her entire experience of giving birth was like a “horror show” and that she might be prevented from having another child for fear of a repeat.
Ms Jenkins was “appalled” when she realized the other woman traveling from Gladstone to Rockhampton Hospital was going home alone because her baby did not survive the birth.
Ms. Jenkins was already scared that her own unborn child might not survive and the devastated woman at her side brought that horrible reality home.
She had been diagnosed with cholestasis during her pregnancy, when the normal flow of bile from the liver is reduced or blocked.
That led to doctors warning her that her baby could be stillborn or have a disability.
Ms Jenkins was set to drive herself from Gladstone to Rockhampton to give birth after an examination showed she had reached three centimeters dilated.
But doctors discovered a massive blood clot and told her to take an ambulance because her baby was ‘coming fast’.
Ms. Jenkin’s labor slowed and she ultimately did not deliver her son Mason for another six grueling days, moving between the hospital and two different hotels.
When she arrived at Rockhampton Hospital, she was informed that her water would break, but it never happened as the facility lacked midwives.
Ms. Jenkins finally had her son after six days of labor (pictured left) and also has a three-year-old son (pictured right)
A shortage of midwives at Rockhampton Hospital means staff were unable to break Ms Jenkins’ waters, forcing her to wait six days into labour.
“It was a nightmare journey having Mason, but thankfully it had a happy ending as he was born healthy and free of disabilities as predicted,” she told the magazine. mail.
“When I hold him in my arms, I have flashbacks to that awful two-hour ambulance ride in the rain.”
Ms Jenkins said the whole experience of giving birth was like a “horror show” and she may prevent her from having another child for fear of a repeat.
The Central Queensland Hospital and Health Service did not comment on Ms Jenkins’ birth, but a spokesperson said staff may face “competing priorities” when multiple births occur at once.