Both the woman and the twins are doing well despite being born in seven weeks.
A twin birth on the hard shoulder of the A24 motorway. This is what happened on the night of Sunday 25 September where a woman in pain was unable to arrive in time to the hospital to give birth to her twins, born in seven weeks, a boy and a girl, who fortunately are well and are now hospitalized in the ward of Neonatology at the Policlinico di Roma.
The mother, 30, lives in Marano Equo where the nearby hospital once a reference point for births for the entire Aniene Valley, now no longer welcomes women in labor who have to go to Tivoli.
It all begins in the middle of the night when the woman in pain calls the ambulance that arrived on the spot quickly, decides to be admitted to the hospital.
But during the journey the situation got worse and the children wanted to be born. At that point the ambulance was forced to pull into the emergency lane of the A24 near Castel Madamanear Rome, to give birth.
Double childbirth, the story of those who intervened
“They called us in the middle of the night. Her mother was in constant pain even though she had only entered the seventh month and so we decided to take her to the hospital in Tivoli, but it was not possible to arrive in time, luckily she went well “ – said the ambulance driver.
Assisted by a doctor and a nurse from the maternity ward, the young woman was given birth. “The mother was able to collaborate despite the difficult situation and that double delivery in an ambulance was a great emotion. We had no other choice, after all ”.
After the birth, the ambulance left for the Tivoli hospital where the twins and the woman were first treated. The babies were then transferred Department of Neonatology of the Policlinico Umberto I in Romeas they are premature.
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