Sophie Smith

And then a doctor came over and said, okay, we're just organizing an ambulance for you.

because there aren't any beds available in the neonatal intensive care unit here at the Royal Hospital for Women.

And we've called around all the hospitals in Sydney and there's a critical shortage of neonatal intensive care beds tonight.

So we're going to have to take you up to Newcastle and your babies will be cared for up there and they've got a wonderful hospital up there.

So we were like, oh, all right, this doesn't sound ideal, but okay, let's get going then.

And then an hour or so passed and I started to get quite anxious and say, what are we waiting for?

You know, my babies might be delivered en route.

That's going to be no good.

Can we go now, please?

And then they said, oh, we're really sorry.

There's another plan C. Newcastle doesn't have...

any beds available.

So we're going to deliver your babies here in Sydney.

We'll airlift them to Brisbane or Melbourne."

And then they said, we just have to warn you that there is a possibility that we might have to take one to Brisbane and one to Melbourne.

Oh, Sophie.

And that was just, you know, like a terrible moment because I suddenly thought, but we've just achieved the impossible here.

We've just made it to 24 weeks.

We've just done the hard bit.

What's happening now?