Doctor about to go into labour delivers another woman’s baby after hearing her cries A doctor who was preparing to give birth delivered another patient’s baby after hearing her cries from a nearby hospital […]

A doctor who was preparing to give birth delivered another patient’s baby after hearing her cries from a nearby hospital room.

Dr Amanda Hess is an obstetrician-gynecologist based at the Frankfort Regional Medical Center, in Kentucky, in the US, and was admitted as a patient a week ago to give birth to her second child.

Doctors are never off duty

Dr Hess had donned a hospital gown and slippers in preparation to be induced when she heard Leah Halliday Johnson, who was also one of her patients, in pain in a nearby room, according to reports in local media.

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Ms Halliday Johnson was fully dilated, her baby was reportedly in distress and the on-call doctor had not yet arrived to deliver her baby.

‘I went down to her room and I knew her’

“I just put on another gown to cover up my backside and put on some boots over my shoes, to keep from getting any fluid and all that stuff on me, and went down to her room and I knew her,” Dr Hess told WKYT.

Ms Halliday Johnson gave birth to a healthy baby girl, all the while failing to notice her doctor was also a fellow patient on the maternity ward.

‘I was in my own world’

Ms Halliday Johnson told NBC Dr Hess’s actions were “pretty amazing”. “My husband noticed something was going on because she had on a hospital gown, but I didn’t notice that because I was on the delivery table. I was in my own world there.

“It speaks a lot to who she is as a woman and a mother as well as a doctor. It makes you feel better, bringing a baby girl into the world, knowing there are women like her willing to step up like that.”

Frankfort Medical Centre said a physician on-call arrived just after the delivery to complete the birthing process with Ms Halliday Johnson.

Dr Hess gave birth to a daughter, Ellen Joyce, just hours after she finished helping to deliver the baby.

The unusual delivery was recounted first by Dr Hala Sabry, who runs a Facebook page for doctors with children in the US called Physicians Moms Group.