Southern Vancouver Island’s first baby of 2018 born on laundry room floor
CENTRAL SAANICH, B.C. — The first baby born on southern Vancouver Island in 2018 made a dramatic entrance Monday, delivered on the floor of the family’s laundry room with her father’s help and coaching from a 911 dispatcher.
Rob Tuit, 33, described the experience as “a blur” as he and his wife, Elaine Tuit, welcomed their second child early Jan. 1.
Tuit said his wife began having contractions in their Victoria-area home early in the morning and he called for an ambulance at 4:43 a.m. after her water broke, as instructed by the couple’s doctor.
He said he followed the emergency dispatcher’s directions, gathering towels and helping his wife lay on the floor in the laundry room, adjacent to the washroom where she had been standing.