Kirsty Nott, a mother-of-six, who took her children for a fun family trip went into labour prematurely at the beach on the hottest day ever recorded in the UK.
Gatekeepers News reports that on 19 July, Nott took five of her children out for a day at Aberavon Beach in Port Talbot after a school trip to Porthcawl had been cancelled at the last minute due to hot weather warnings.
As soon as they arrived on the beach, Kirsty told her children, Logan Angell, 14, Braydan Parfitt, 10, Roxy Parfitt, 9, Kruz Parfitt, 8 and Blake Nott, 4, to run into the sea while she set up the towels and beach toys.
Her husband Shane Gregory was at his work as a telecom engineer that day so she had invited her friend to join her, but was delayed in traffic.
As she set up alone on the beach she bent over to put her towel down when her waters suddenly broke. “I hadn’t even put my bum on the sand yet,” Kirsty said.
Terrified and in a lot of pain, Nott called her mother and partner Gregory who were both in Aberdare, who called an ambulance on her behalf while strangers on the beach started to gather around to help.
The five children returned from their swim in the sea and watched in shock as their mother had contractions on the sand.
She said, “I was panicking, there were no familiar faces. I thought he was going to come out on the beach.”
Her previous children had been delivered quickly so she was concerned that this labour would follow the same pattern, but her biggest worry was haemorrhaging whilst far away from a hospital as she had suffered from postpartum haemorrhages with four out of her six births.
Although paramedics called Kirsty directly, she handed it to a woman who she had just met as she was in too much pain to listen.
Repeating instructions from the paramedics, the woman told Kirsty to lay down and take off all her clothes on her bottom half.
Kirsty who was in such shock and discomfort that she had no time to feel embarrassed at stripping off on the beach in front of an audience. “At the time, I didn’t care who was seeing what,” Kirsty explained.
As the crowds around her started to grow, Port Talbot coastguards arrived and cleared the area, putting up windbreakers around Kirsty to give her some much-needed privacy.
Although an ambulance arrived on time to take her straight to Singleton Hospital, Kristy’s midwife told her that her cervix was not opening and that her labour needed to be induced.
Following the labour induction, baby Tanner-Jax Gregory Nott was born weighing 5lb 11oz and as Kirsty had predicted, she suffered another post-partum haemorrhage.
She was taken care of by medical staff and the baby, Tanner-Jax was jaundiced so they had to stay in the hospital for four days before they were later discharged.
