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By Rob Mahon

Baby Brandon

‘Thank you, Brandon’: Mother names son after paramedic who delivered him

Jul 20, 2022 | 12:00 PM

Jackie Ermine has now given birth to five children. Her most recent child, which she said will be her last, was the strangest birth of the bunch.

Paramedics from Parkland Ambulance helped Ermine give birth to a baby that came eight weeks early. The boy was born on Sunday, July 17, with Ermine’s partner there to help her through it until paramedics arrived.

“We kind of panicked, I’m not going to lie,” said Ermine. “He (her partner) had just taken his first-aid last week. He was talking to the paramedics on the phone as well and he was pretty much going to deliver the baby if the paramedics hadn’t shown up just in time.”

According to Ermine, paramedics were just in time to help. She said if they had shown up even 30 seconds later, it would’ve been her partner delivering the child. As it was, paramedics arrived in the nick of time, but things still happened very quickly.

“My water broke at 7:30 and I had him at 8:01,” Ermine said. “They (the paramedics) were really awesome right up until we got to the hospital. I’m really thankful for both of them. We kind of joked and laughed after the baby was born together.”

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Lyle Karasiuk, director of public affairs with Parkland Ambulance, said they typically help deliver about six babies in any given year, but one of the paramedics was at his second birth in less than a year. After joking a bit about naming the baby after him, Ermine decided that was exactly what she would do, and her son was named Brandon.

“When the baby was laying on my chest, he didn’t seem that small,” Ermine said. “I have three other children that are pre-term babies as well, and he seemed the same size as them, he didn’t seem that small. When we got to the hospital, they told us we would be flying to Regina.”

As hard as it is on the family right now to be having to travel from Prince Albert to Regina, young Brandon, who weighed three pounds and 14 ounces, is doing quite well.

“He’s breathing on his own now, he’s off his vent,” said Ermine. “He’s eating double what he was the day he was born. He’s had no episodes in over twelve hours. He’s doing awesome. I’m so proud of my little man.”

Before travelling to Regina, taking two of her younger children with her, Ermine had one last message for the paramedic who helped her through it and after whom she named her son.

“I’d just like to thank him so much for all the help,” said Ermine. “Even being in the ambulance. He’s an awesome guy. My mom had talked to him already, and she had thanked him over the phone. Thank you, Brandon. I don’t know what we would’ve done without you.”

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