Yes, we're still going on about the blackout on the 28th of last month, but it's worth reporting on a spot of 'light' in the 'dark.'

Spanish have an almost poetic term for giving birth, which is dar luz, literally meaning “giving light” to a baby. Hence the title; a woman giving birth to her baby on the darkest day since 1981, which was the last time that the whole province suffered a total blackout.

When the power went down at 12.33h on Monday the 28th across Spain, in the Hospital Virgen de las Nieves in Granada, their four emergency generators kicked in, one of which was for the maternity ward, with its operation theatre and delivery rooms.

Hospital Materno has nine delivery rooms and babies are born almost in droves, because one mother giving birth seems to cause others to enter into labour as well.

One of the mothers had gone into labour and entered hospital Sunday evening. Her waters had broken and her family rushed her to hospital. She was on the ward until four the next morning, there was a small complication but by dawn things were going well for her first child to be born.

Then came 12.33h and she was going through regular contractions when the lights in the delivery room went out for about a minute until the generator kicked in.

She had been almost 24 hours in labour when the gynecologist decided to perform a caesarean or C-section, which meant being prepared for the operating theatre. In other words, this particular first-time mother spent the whole 12 hours of the outage in labour.

Finally, at 23.10h on Monday the 28th in a city in darkness the mother ‘gave light’ to a boy weighing 2.5kg.

(News: City & Metropolitan Area, Granada, Andalucia)

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