A mother has opened up about how she and her newborn baby Cruz almost died during a terrifying home birth.
Mother-of-three Natalie Beecham went into labor within minutes of her water breaking at her Highland Park home on the Gold Coast, Queensland, six weeks ago.
A home birth wasn’t the plan for Ms Beecham, who was 41 weeks pregnant, but after her water broke in the laundry room, she was experiencing contractions when she got to her room.
Paramedics Max Westerhof and Brooke Musty arrived at Beecham’s home within 20 minutes.
“The moment we knew it was serious was after the initial birth of the head, there was a delay,” Mr Westerhof said. he Gold Coast Newsletter.
One of baby Cruz’s shoulders became trapped above his mother’s pubic bone and he was trapped for a full ten minutes.
Cruz was finally born, but came out without a heartbeat or breathing.
Meanwhile, Mrs Beecham was also suffering from serious haemorrhage.
Mother Natalie Beecham (right) almost lost her baby Cruz in a terrifying home birth experience. She is pictured with her husband Troy (far left), her children and the paramedics who helped save her life.
The two paramedics managed to measure the baby’s heart rate one minute after his arrival into the world, but his breathing was still poor.
Both Ms Beecham and Cruz were then rushed to Gold Coast University Hospital.
Nurses took Beecham straight to the operating room because she had lost about half of her blood during childbirth.
Miraculously, Beecham and her baby made a full recovery and were reunited with their paramedic heroes on Friday, six weeks after Cruz was born.
“I was so scared…words can’t describe…I’m so grateful,” she said.
‘The fact that they acted as quickly as they did means that both Cruz and I are here and we can have this meeting today. If they didn’t act as quickly as they did, it could be very different.
He said the paramedic’s faces would remain in his memory forever.
He added that Cruz is a happy and healthy baby and is his little miracle.