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Anna Carolina da Costa Avelheda Bandeira, age 40, described in an interview the moment her son Arthur was born in the parking lot of her apartment building. Photographer Graziele Pereira’s photographs of the precise moment the baby was delivered, taken ten months after the event, received worldwide attention.
The mother of the cheerful and rambunctious Arthur said that she became pregnant at the age of 29 and that the whole pregnancy was relatively tranquil, with just the characteristic sts of us in the first trimester, s in the thigh, and fatigue, particularly in the last months.
“I worked till 39 weeks ɢᴇstᴀtɪᴏɴ. It was February 14th. On Monday, my husband and I celebrated our wedding anniversary, so we went out to lunch. We walked to the downtown Rio train, then walked the Botafogo subway to where the vehicle was parked near the firm, a twenty-minute walk, before returning home.
The next day, Anna woke up with some ᴄʀᴀᴍᴘs. She had already taken ᴍᴇᴅɪᴄᴀʟ leave, with a ᴄᴇʀtɪꜰɪᴄᴀtᴇ from the ᴏʙstᴇtʀɪᴄɪᴀɴ who accompanied her, because she couldn’t stand the tiredness anymore. The plan for that day was to take the opportunity to finish organizing her little room and the things she and her partner would take to the hospital.
Anna spent the whole night in a great deal of, waking every ten minutes as the became s after she went to bed. The nurse, Amanda Bento, then requested permission to do a touch exam. “When we arrived in my room, I was already 7 cm t, so we could go to the hospital. During the delay, I had a hot shower. The ten to fifteen minutes I spent inside helped to alleviate the I was experiencing, but I had to leave since the t.”
“When they were all at the side of the car, with the door already open for them to get in, Anna had another ᴄᴏɴtʀᴀᴄtɪᴏɴ and shouted to the nurse: “It won’t work, he’s being born!” She didn’t believe it, but she came to examine it and, in fact, he was already crowing.
“I shouted to my husband, who was in the car, waiting for us to get in: “Love, come here, run!” My biggest ꜰᴇᴀʀ was that he wouldn’t witness the moment our son was born. He stayed behind me, supporting me while I pushed and Amanda supported the baby. Roberta was close by too, but she had moved a little to the side so that my husband could stay with me and with us. In three pushes, our son was born,” she recalls.
A mixture of feelings took care of Anna in those moments: there was concern because they were far from the hospital and did not have a home birth team to help the mother or baby in case of any ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟɪᴄᴀtɪᴏɴs.
“My husband and I were present, along with our photographer, doula, and nurse. Amanda, who is a midwife, reassured us that both I and the baby were healthy. I felt enormous joy and appreciation for having been able to bring our baby into the world at the right moment. Suddenly there was comfort, since with his birth, the and tts ceased.”
“He was born ruddy, all wrinkled and full of the ᴠᴇʀɴɪx, crying and showing what he came for. On the way to the hospital, he was already breastfeeding. I was fine too, thank God,” says the mother.
Anna says she never even thought that this would happen to her, especially since both Anna and Roberta always thought it was too ʀɪsᴋʏ. And for women who are afraid of the ᴘᴀɪɴ of childbirth, Anna leaves a message: “First of all, study, inform yourself. Childbirth is “natural”, but we need to know all the physiognomy involved. Then trust and believe that you are capable. Like Roberta Reis, our doula, she always told me: “Birth begins in the head”. It is there that we need to work on the idea that we have succeeded.
