Alice Payne is a young mother, aged 23, who, being hospitalized, wanted to rest, so she closed her eyes to sleep.
An hour later, she woke up and found that she was in labor, almost giving birth to her baby in her sleep, without feeling it. It appears that the devices she was connected to did not work properly, so they did not alert the doctors, according to thesun.co.uk.
The doctors entered the living room in the middle of the birth and were amazed that the woman could sleep in those moments. Her baby boy, whom she later named Philp, was born healthy, weighing 2.83 kilograms.
“Because the contraction monitor did not perceive me properly, the doctors did not realize that my pregnancy was so advanced. So they gave me some medicine so I could sleep for a few hours, but 30 minutes later they realized I was ready to push, ”said Alice Payne.
When they realized what was happening, the doctors wanted to put the mother in the cesarean section, being asleep. But when the woman’s husband entered the living room and told her to push, she listened to him and began to give birth in her sleep.
Alice woke up just 10 minutes before it was all over, and after giving birth, she went back to sleep for another two hours.
“I remember a nurse trying to put Philip in my arms, but I went to bed again and woke up two hours later when I met my son,” she said.
“Although I am happy that I missed the birth pains, I wish I had been more present at the birth of my first child. Now, when he grows up and asks me, I will have to tell him that I fell asleep “, she added.