By EMS1 Staff
TORONTO — For a Toronto paramedic, three may be his lucky number.
George Christidis, 53, said in the last three weeks he’s delivered three babies, a streak Toronto Paramedics Service called “really unheard of and a first in recent memory.”
Christidis, a 28-year veteran, said he’s delivered around 20 babies throughout his career.
“We would deliver between 40 and 60 babies a year, about once a week,” Kim McKinnon, the service’s spokesperson, said. “So he [Christidis] has delivered more than his share out of 1,000 paramedics.”
Christidis recalled one delivery in which he responded to a woman going into labor at her home. Since there was no time to transport the woman to the hospital, Christidis delivered the baby there.
“Any deliveries that I’ve encountered in the field, everybody’s a little bit nervous. Because they go ‘Are we going to make it to the hospital,’ and at some point I think they realize, ‘I’m not going to make it to the hospital.’ So I think there is some tension there,” Christidis told the Toronto Sun.
When asked about his most recent streak, Christidis said, “I’ve honestly never had this many in such a short time. I guess the baby gods were smiling on me.”