Divya felt the pains come on. It was her first child. It was time to go to the hospital. Arriving at the Mission hospital she was taken to the maternity ward and admitted by the nurse. While the nurse examined her, she felt her waters break, but saw alarm in the eyes of the nurse, who hurriedly covered her up and ran from the room. In a few minutes staff swarmed into the room and the obstetrician Dr. Bharti rushed in pulling on sterile gloves as she did so. It was the cord which had prolapsed, being compressed between the head of the baby and the bones, cutting off essential blood to the baby. The baby would die. With a nurse trying to push up the head of the baby all the time, Divya was rushed into the operating room where Dr. Bharti did the fastest Caesarean section she had ever done, expecting the baby not to live. On the neonatal trolley, the sweetest sound heard that day was a cry. The baby lived! The room exploded with cheers. That baby is alive and well today because of the team that knew what to do when and did it.
“It’s the cord!”
A dramatic story of a cord prolapse during childbirth and the quick-thinking medical staff, who performed an emergency C-section to save the baby.