When the midwife's duty falls on New Year's Eve, the pleasant in the holiday becomes much less. Every year, my colleagues and I wonder why there are so many who want to give birth on the night of December 31 to January 1. These are eternal debates when it is worth recording the date of birth on December 31 at 23.59 or January 1 at 00.00. Once, Mom refused to leave the delivery room until the child was registered in the old year, because the next was a leap year. And this, you see, is a bad omen.
The watch began with the handover of 5 women in labor. They were waiting for the birth of four boys and two girls. We asked the mothers to try so that we all met the New Year at the tables, and they and their little ones in an embrace. And all would be nothing. Only one woman had a delay in labor. According to our calculations, she had to give birth before 9 pm. But on the clock, the hands were already approaching 22.30, and the process was not yet close to the end. Worried that twins were about to be born. As recorded on the exchange card, two girls were expected to appear.
Fortunately, there were no new people wishing to be in the delivery room. Therefore, the whole shift walked around this woman and asked the sky for everything to be resolved as quickly as possible. The most active phase of labor began at 23.30. It became clear to everyone that instead of the New Year's table, ours was waiting for an obstetric chair. We tried to joke about this, but the heart-rending screams of mommy interrupted our impulse. First, the first vociferous beauty with black curls appeared. Looking at her, it became clear that the girls would go to dad. After 20 minutes, the little sister appeared, as expected. Calmer than the first girl. We have already begun to finish the necessary procedures with the happy mother of twins, when suddenly new strong attempts began. We all didn’t understand anything. The woman in labor was scared in earnest. The afterbirth could not come out like that.
Volleys of fireworks began to be heard outside the windows, illuminating the delivery room. The doctors of the entire shift jumped around the woman in labor: they felt the stomach, measured the pressure, watched the process. And suddenly at 00.10 another head of the child appeared. Much to everyone's surprise, a third baby was hiding inside the big belly. And it was a boy.
When we told Mommy, she screamed, “No! It can't be! I should only have two girls, shove it back! " We understood that all this she said in a state of shock. But her voice sounded very confident. Neonatologists took care of the babies who needed to be transferred to incubators, since all the children had only about two kilograms of weight.
We reassured Mom. As it turned out, for some reason of her own, she did not do an ultrasound. She plucked up courage and called her husband. Probably, he fell there from the news that he became the owner of triplets. On the discharge they said that they decided to give the boy the name "Lazhden" from the first daddy's phrase: "I did not expect!" This is not the first and not the last watch in the New Year. Only this New Year's triplets were remembered for a long time!
