Quick-thinking officer helps woman after her waters break in Wolverhampton B&M store
Quick-thinking by an officer helped to calm a woman whose waters broke in a city shop.
A Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) from Wolverhampton City Centre Police called Emma was shopping in B&M on Dudley Street in Wolverhampton on Thursday at around 2pm when the incident occurred.
The officer moved to help the woman, making her comfortable and helping to keep her calm until a crew from West Midlands Ambulance Service arrived.
Staff at the store said the incident had happened so quickly and they hadn't been able to get the details of either the new mother or the PCSO.
A spokesman for Wolverhampton Police said: "Team 2's PCSO Emma has helped a women today in B&M store whose waters broke in the shop and she leapt into action, making the mother to be as comfortable as possible whilst awaiting the ambulance.
"Watching all those episodes of Call The Midwife has really paid off."
A spokeswoman for West Midlands Ambulance Service said: "We were called to a maternity case at B&M in Wolverhampton at 2.09pm.
"An ambulance attended and arrived to find staff and off duty nurses providing care to a woman in labour.
"The woman was given treatment on scene before being conveyed to New Cross Hospital."
West Midlands Police and B&M have been contacted for a comment.
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