An amazingly determined midwife wasn’t going to let flood waters stop her from delivering a baby.
Cathy Allen was cut off from getting to the Katy Birth Centre in Texas where she works as a midwife. Her street was flooded due to the major Houston Floods.
Allen was unable to use a kayak, but when a neighbour, Celeste, offered an inflatable swan, the midwife didn’t say no.
“Midwives will do anything to get to a birth,” Allen wrote on her Facebook page with a photo of her in the swan on the flooded road.
“Riding a swan to get off my flooded street and make it to the birth centre.”
“She pushed her swan to my front door and I climbed in with all the birthing equipment I needed,” Allen wrote. “I floated down to the waiting pickup truck and off to the birth centre we went.”
Cathy made it to the birth centre and later that evening, her patient gave birth to a boy. Allen shared the wonderful news of the birth on her Facebook page.
“A bit of a belated welcome for this special little guy born 9.33pm.
“During the historic Houston flood. New baby brother for Cole and Alivia born at Katy Birth Centre in water (but in a birth pool not the floodwaters).
“Pretty special event.”
