To give life, a woman braved all the dangers by riding her motorcycle and exceeding the imposed speed limit. To the police, she defended herself for having had a heavy foot…
A birth of high-flying ! A driver was checked on Thursday October 6, 2022 at 105 km/h instead of 70 by the Loiret police officers, in Orléans, as reportedSouth West. A case that would not be exceptional if this biker had not mounted her racing car at full speed rounded belly by the arrival of a child. A newborn about to show the tip of his nose, which would have pushed the eight-month-pregnant woman to have a heavy foot on the accelerator in order to arrive as soon as possible in a hospital structure and give birth safelyas indicated by our colleagues.
This moon scene surprised the police who found the offense. Explaining her situation, the woman in her thirties said she had felt contractions a few minutes earlier and therefore made the decision to go urgently to the hospital where she was to give birth. Faced with his remarks, the police therefore chose not to don’t put a ticket to this rather special kind of biker and decided to contact the firefighters, who therefore went to the scene and confirmed that the birth had indeed begun. Thus, the mother-to-be was finally taken to the maternity ward of the Oréliance health center in an ambulance, escorted by three bikers of the font.
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Nearly one in ten women live more than thirty minutes’ drive from a maternity ward
If this young mother from Loiret is arrived on time to give birth to her child, many fail to reach a hospital structure as quickly as possible. And for good reason, in twenty years, half of the maternities have disappeared in France, as revealed by a survey by the Sunday Journal (JDD), in 2019. A lack of establishments which has thus lengthen travel time pregnant women between their home and the place of delivery. And in 2021, the Department of Research, Studies, Evaluation and Statistics (DREES) drove home the point: between 2000 and 2017, DREES specialists noted a 30% increase in the number of women living more than thirty minutes from a maternity ward. Thus, nearlyone in ten French people (7%) should do more than thirty minutes drive to give life.
“The decision to close maternity wards in France is often based on considerations of safety of care. Maternities that close are smaller and those that remain are larger”, analyzed specialists from the DREES. And to add:The care offer is concentrated in larger and more specialized maternity wards.”