Christmas babies are regularly celebrated in hospitals around the country, with holiday staff working at full speed to welcome new babies into the world during the festive season.
This year was no different at Netcare’s Park Lane Hospital in Parktown on 25 December as one newborn was delivered by hospital staff – a far cry from the many babies delivered in previous years but a cause for celebration nevertheless.
With one birth on Christmas, the hospital would mark yet another Christmas with at least one Christmas birth. The circumstances surrounding the birth of the child, however, meant that hospital staff had to be on high alert and delivered the baby via c-section.
“We are a proud hospital, being a mother and baby hospital to have welcomed this precious baby on Christmas day,” said Lillian Thema, ICU manager at the hospital. “The baby had to be delivered via ce-section as it was a 35-week gestation baby, and purely for the reason that the mother had two previous c-section operations.”
Proud mother, Zaakira Noor (26) said she was over the moon to have given birth to her baby girl, but had celebrations thwarted by the fact that the baby was admitted to the ICU unit.
“I’m not happy that she’s in ICU although nurses say that she’s doing well,” said Noor. “I was admitted to the hospital on Friday and any contractions I was experiencing were stopped. I went home the same day and on Christmas day, it just happened.”
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