The first baby born on Pender Island, B.C., in seven years was a surprise to everyone involved, according to B.C. Emergency Health Services.
The first baby born on Pender Island, B.C., in seven years was a surprise to everyone involved, according to B.C. Emergency Health Services ."Our baby was not due for another three weeks," his mother, Danielle Yole, said in a release on March 8.
The responding paramedics, Shannon Brayford and Scott Elliott, worked with volunteer firefighters at the scene and with BCEHS charge dispatcher Megan Hoggard to work on a plan. However, paramedics received an update that"things were progressing faster than we all thought" and determined that the family wouldn't make it through the 15 minute drive to get to the water taxi, and risk delivering the baby on the water.
The team included a local physician, a midwife"plucked from her Pender garden," and an obstetrician and third-year medical student from Victoria, according to BCEHS.