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Daddy Turned Doctor: Man Delivers Bouncing Baby Boy
posted (September 18, 2018)
Daddy turn doctor: a Corozal man was forced to deliver his 5th child this morning before dawn. Jaime Hernandez says he had to step in because the staff at the Corozal Community Hospital didn't step up to help his pregnant wife. Here is Hernandez's account of what happened.

Husband - delivered child
"When we reach at the hospital the doctors there checked my wife. They did what they had to do and the nurse and doctor told her that it's a matter of she is hungry and she wants to eat and it's just a natural pain and then they say you can go home and try to get some food to eat. I was upset, because I wanted to know why they sent my wife back home. I mean she is in pain and this is her 5th child. She knows exactly when the child is going to come or not. We came back home. I was lying down on the bed and I fell asleep. That's when she started with more pain. She is going to have the baby now and like I was kind of excited, but I had a little bit of experience that I saw my 4th child born. So I saw what the doctor did just to deliver, but I don't know if I was to tie the cord or what to do when I had the baby in my hand. I see the baby coming and I catch him and we quickly wrap him up with a towel and stuff like that. That's when my brother-in-law called the hospital and they came to the wrong address and we had to wait a little while."

"When it comes to a pregnant woman, you shouldn't deny them. You should keep them on surveillance, because you are dealing with 2 lives here and then imagine something went wrong? What were they going to say? Sorry or I mean."

Friend
"A lot of people complained about the hospital. Everybody has their own situation. I had a situation. I took my daughter and my son at the hospital - you go there and there is no medicine. Sometimes you have to wait long probably 2-3 hours. I think they should have at night 2 doctors working."

But despite these challenges, Hernandez's wife, Elena delivered a healthy baby boy. We will keep following this story to get a comment from the hospital.

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