Posted on 01/03/2008 5:45:31 AM PST by BillyBonebrake
Milford special (double) delivery FRANK JULIANO Article Last Updated: 01/02/2008 11:42:34 PM EST
MILFORD — Larryett Thomas already knows something about the twin boys she gave birth to early Wednesday morning: They are impatient.
Thomas, 25, of 28 Ellis St., had already delivered the first baby at home when paramedics arrived at 4:30 a.m., said Capt. Michael McDaniel, the Fire Department spokesman.
"The baby was suspended in her stretch pants, and the paramedics got it out, cut the cord and got it crying and then delivered the next one,'' McDaniel said.
Thomas, who was admitted to Bridgeport Hospital following the home deliveries, said although the boys, named Curt and Curtis, are four weeks premature, they are fine. "They'll be in the [Intensive Care Unit] for 24 hours just to make sure, and then they'll be in the room with me,'' she said. Thomas said she and her two new sons expect to be discharged Friday.
Lt. Bill Holveck, paramedics Chris Brown and Chris Waiksnoris, and firefighter Dan Talaniec responded when Thomas' mother called 911, but ultimately there was a team of 10 people involved in the call, including a police officer. "Technically, we had three patients,'' Waiksnoris said. "When the lieutenant and I got there, she had partially delivered the first baby. She had about 12 minutes to rest in between the births. She knew she was having twins and had gotten prenatal care at Bridgeport Hospital.''
Brown noted that "the mother does 90 percent of the work,'' but there was still a lot for the medical responders to do. There were two ambulances and the Fire Department's rescue truck on the scene, and since there were no lights in the room where the mother was, the men held flashlights while assisting her.
"We all have our roles to play but we can all step in and do each other's jobs if we need to,'' he said.
Talaniec has been a firefighter for a little more than a year, and Wednesday morning's call was the first babies he helped deliver. That is a pretty good start to a career, Battalion Chief William Healey said. "I've been with the department for 33 years and I've never delivered a baby. That's just how it goes sometimes, but [to deliver] twins is very rare.''
Holveck, who was in charge of the team assisting the mother, said the scene was "awesome, beautiful, but chaotic.'' Paramedics Frank Murphy, Wayne Chappell, Brian McVety, Jeff Lindauer and Pete Vining were also part of the team attending Thomas.
The city woman said that her sons each weigh about 4 pounds. Their father, whom she declined to name, will help her, she said. "I've got four other kids, three boys and a girl who is going to be a year old soon. My oldest son is 10 and goes to Simon Lake School, and the other two are 4 and 2 years old.''
New mothers sometimes don't recognize the onset of labor, but Thomas said that wasn't the case with her children. Curt and Curtis were just in a hurry to get started in life, she said.
And Talaniec, who was the object of some good-natured ribbing from co-workers in the firehouse Wednesday night, said assisting at the birth of the twins was interesting. "It was exciting to help new life coming into the world,'' he said.
“Blue Jean Baby” ping.
She didn’t even know she had to take her stretch pants down to have a baby? She named her twins Curt and Curtis? (shades of “this is my brother Daryl and this is my other brother Daryl”)
ack. ack!
And she already had 4 kids, too. Back when I worked ER, I finished delivering a couple of blue jean babies. Usually messy and sometimes the babies didn’t do so well.
Gunner, time to write us an ER/baby story. :)
Red Flag: Declining to name the father.
Children deserve to come into this world free of stretch pants, and with real, married-to-mom fathers.
And what color flag for her naming her twins the same name?!!
ER? They were never in the ER.
Oh, my.
While I would love to deliver a baby, what the HECK has she been doing since she was FIFTEEN? Yikes.
Six kids? I think that's intuitively obvious.
I actually KNOW a girl like her. Dang if I don’t really like her, too. She must never have met a guy she didn’t bed and produce a baby with.....but she is the sweetest creature you’d ever want to meet. You meet all kinds in my line...and get to see how they live. It is so REAL that they had to use flashlights in the house.....happens EVERY day. I keep donating my old lamps to the mission in hopes of seeing them in a home I go into. LOL Problem is their slum landlords do not provide enough outlets.....can you believe you can rent an apartment and there are NO outlets in a room? It really happens. My jacket weighs a ton.....you should see the big old flashlight I carry.
What, no “it takes a village to support a welfare-queen baby machine” alert?
I’ve moved enough and done enough house hunting to know to look for electrical outlets, plumbing and HVAC. My ex was an engineer and used to get into crawl spaces with a flashlight looking for termites, asbestos, and lead paint. Really PO’ed some homeowners when she would crawl out shaking her head.
Gunner is ER nurse and boy can he write.
To be fair, there’s an 6 year gap. We certainly know what she’s been doing the last 4 years - 5 kids 4 and under. Yikes!
I am an EMT and with all the hospitals we deal with any mom in labor or just delivered babies go directly to the maternity unit or neonatal unit.......that’s all I meant. The ER does not take them at all - some don’t even take report, they have us call maternity directly.
Oh darn. You mean Gunner won’t have any stories for us??
sigh
Strangely enough, I have honestly never participated in a precipitous delivery. I have dealt with a few septic babies whose mothers should have brought them in sooner but chose to listen to their stupid naturopathic midwives instead. But that’s another story.
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