'It happened quickly': Sask. family sent away from hospital, forced to give birth on floor of townhouse
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Tara and Mitchell Luce have three children together — and after their experience with one-month-old Lincoln, they don’t expect to be adding to their family of five.
Tara and Mitchell Luce have three children together — and after their experience with one-month-old Lincoln, they don’t expect to be adding to their family of five.
At the very least, the Stockholm, Sask. couple said they won’t be dealing with Yorkton Regional Hospital for any future births.
On the morning of Dec. 20, 2022 — a brisk day, with a wind chill of -40 C — Tara and Mitchell made the 45 minute drive to the Yorkton Hospital, as Tara’s contractions had become became irregular.
The couple said the hospital staff sent them to go shopping, or go for supper in the city.
“Then by six o'clock, they said come back. So by then my contractions were getting closer, but still irregular … I was three centimeters (dilated). And I was in pain. My contractions are bringing me down to my knees, but they said since I was only at three (centimetres dilated), I should go home (or) get a hotel,” Tara told CTV News Thursday.
After that direction, the couple ended up at Tara’s mom’s new townhouse.
She went into the bathtub and had a warm bath, with her contractions getting stronger — but still six to eight minutes apart.
