Midwife rides inflatable swan through flood to deliver baby
In the 24 years she has been a midwife, Cathy Rude has braved her share of storms and flooding to get to a laboring patient. But last week was the first time the 63-year-old faced flood waters so high that her only way to work was to hitch a ride on an inflatable swan. Courtesy of Andrea Haley Rude has been a midwife for twenty-four years, and says she has waded through flood waters in the past to deliver babies, but never in waters as deep as she saw during the recent flooding to her town. Rude says the flood waters...
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