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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Adam May

Mum gave birth on her sofa with just two paracetamol because local hospital was full

A mum gave birth on her sofa and with just two paracetamol because her local hospital was full.

Eilish McKinney from Nassington, Northamptonshire, panicked when her waters broke on September 20.

She had planned to go to an NHS facility in Peterborough, but her and her fiancé Tom Blackman were told the maternity unit was full when they phoned Peterborough City Hospital.

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