Little Julia, barely three weeks old, sleeps peacefully in her air-conditioned home in Pont-de-Seux (Maine-et-Loire) this morning, Friday, July 10th. A baby has already forgotten the oven in which he spent his first days of life, while the maternity ward of the University Hospital of Angers had to deal with a historic heat wave. This will give him an anecdote to tell in a few years.
says his father Charlie Guitton, even if he and his partner Marie Guillotin could do without it.
During the entire birth, I was in a double room with one ventilator for two. We brought another one from home
– testifies the young mother. When her baby finally arrived via caesarean section on June 20 at 12:45 p.m., the fever had not yet reached its peak. There was air conditioning in the delivery room. Then the hardest part began
– she explains.
After a long and difficult labor, Marie and her little girl are moved to a south-facing room on the fourth floor of the maternity ward. Outside…