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By 5.30am they began to get worse and Stacey was taken to Kenepuru Community Hospital by her partner, Jimi.

She went through labour as per usual, with baby Azriel being born a little before 9am that morning.

However afterwards, Stacey ended up losing a lot of blood because of a retained placenta.

“I bled and lost about a litre of blood. I couldn’t stand up and was just about fainting. I was very symptomatic so the ambulance was called to take me to Wellington [Regional Hospital] with the concern of continual bleeding,” Stacey says.

Stacey doesn’t remember much by this point but she does know the paramedics were very good and so reassuring.

Stacey is extremely thankful for the help she received. Although she works for Wellington Free, Stacey says “being a patient is completely different.”  

“The fact that they were so reassuring through the whole thing and telling me what they were doing was really nice,” she says.

Stacey believes it is important to support Wellington Free. “It’s a charity that everyone is going to need at some point in their life – I needed it way sooner than I ever expected and they were there for me.”

She says if it wasn’t for Wellington Free, she wouldn’t be here for her family.

“Thank you Wellington Free; absolutely keep doing what you do.”

Celebrate with us this Onesie Day on Friday 6 and Saturday 7 September 2019 and support your free ambulance service. Visit our Onesie Day page for more information.