Paramedic team masters home birth: women’s power multiplied by five

Weighing 3380 g, height 51 cm and moving with a lot of energy: little Katharina Wiesinger was in a special rush to see the light of day. The lively Neo-Katsdorf woman really wanted to get a first impression of her future home and therefore caused a lot of stress for three paramedics from the St. Georgen / Gusen Red Cross. So a total of five strong women who lived tonight in a very special way.
KATSDORF. When Sandra Wiesinger from the village of Greinsberg felt her third child in labor at exactly the calculated time in the middle of the night on September 4, neither she nor her partner Michael Scheuchenegger expected the birth this time to be much different from of his two children, He is currently three and a half years old. As the St. Georgen / Gusen ambulance arrived, the team of which was supposed to pick up the expectant mother and transport her to the Kepler Clinic in Linz, the contractions suddenly began. “All of a sudden, everything happened incredibly fast, but luckily, without a problem. Our Katharina saw the light as soon as the three paramedics arrived,” says proud father Michael Scheuchenegger, who supported his wife along with her mother.

Birth still in the house

The trio of paramedics now took over the duties of obstetricians on the fly. A challenging and unexpected debut for the young Red Cross team. “Katharina had just been born, but had not yet been deregulated or medically checked, the placenta was still missing. Now we have assumed all this, but we had perfect first aid,” said the three assistants, father and grandmother of the new citizen Rosen. Michael Scheuchenegger personally cut his daughter’s umbilical cord. At 1:51 a.m., little Katharina finally snuggled peacefully into her mother’s arms. Perg’s emergency team, Dr. Christof Mörtl and Michael Rockenschaub, after a short medical check-up with mother and son, all that was left was the pleasant task of congratulating the happy parents and praising their fellow volunteers for their exemplary care. . Professionalism is expected, but it is not a fact. Because two of the three paramedics can’t really be described as seasoned Red Cross veterans.

Paramedics showed maximum competence

On the contrary: Alexandra Hanl de Langenstein, 18, completed her first independent assignment as a career apprentice at the St. Georgen branch on this trip. The academic high school student in Linz had only successfully completed her medical training last spring. Even “even cooler” is Carina Hauser (20), also from Langenstein, who completed the medical course at the summer academy in the Perg district and accumulated practical hours that night. Obstetrics is, of course, part of the training in the medical course, as a first-year midwifery student at FH Krems was, of course, a particularly welcome expert for Carina in this particular emergency. “I’ve already been there for a few deliveries, but improvising in an apartment and without the support of experienced colleagues in the hospital is something completely different. A very valuable experience for me,” says the newly titled “Red Cross Midwife” happily Only St. Georgen COO Melanie Neuling (32), a civilian bank employee, can already look back on a long medical career despite her young age.If she was still attending high school, she probably would have gotten a big plus: little Katharina’s grandfather was her physics teacher. She took her colleagues safely to the maternity ward of the Linz Kepler Clinic, where the young The family was visited by their midwives on Friday afternoon.
It appears that babies in the region generally have a high level of confidence in the quality of Red Cross training and know-how, even of the youngest employees: it was not until spring that a 19-year-old intern and a civil servant of the same age, both also from the St. Georgen / Gusen office, had in Langenstein successfully helped a girl into the world (reported Bezirksrundschau).

Women’s power in the Red Cross

The fact that all-female Red Cross teams are now a family sight, especially in the Perg district, shows the welcome advancement of committed and competent women and girls in the world of emergency services who used to be rather based on men. At the Red Cross, she has taken on numerous managerial tasks. It goes without saying that even young women in their twenties prove to be charming but assertive group and platoon commanders, sitting as officers in the task force or, with their empathy, acting as ideal “guardian angels” and practical guides for new colleagues.