STERLING, MASS. (WHDH) - Paramedics delivered a healthy set of twins on the highway in Sterling on Friday morning.
Crews responding to Interstate 190 southbound at exit 5 for a woman in labor around 6:45 a.m. learned that the woman’s delivery was imminent.
“She thought she had plenty of time to make it to the hospital, turns out she didn’t,” said Sterling Firefighter Robert Nickerson. (And) we essentially went from one patient to three patients very quickly.”
Paramedics loaded the woman into the ambulance and within minutes, she delivered healthy twins, Sterling fire officials said.
“We were able to get her in the ambulance and within a minute or two she delivered the first child,” Nickerson said. “While we took care of mom and baby, she let us know she was having twins, so we had to quickly get ready for the second baby who came about 10 minutes later.”
The baby girl entered the world at 6:58 a.m. and the baby boy was born at 7:12 a.m.
The mother and the babies were transported to UMass Memorial Medical Center.
“It’s very rare we deliver twins in the field,” Paramedic Erin Cullinane said. “They were perfect, very cute and healthy. We couldn’t ask for an easier delivery.”
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