Paralysed from the waist down, Chantal gave natural birth to four boys, three months earlier. A miracle she and her family never expected. Chantal and her new born babies are currently at the Flora Clinic, west of Johannesburg.
Emery is a 34-year-old woman who is partially paralysed from her waist down, following a car accident in 2008. She can move her one leg, but cannot feel anything from the waist below. She uses a wheelchair to get around, and drives by herself.
But one day she never thought a drive to the restaurant could lead her to the path of love. Despite her paralysis, Chantal got married to Rob Emery and have a three-year-old daughter.
Chantal says the pregnancy came as a surprise as the doctors initially told her she could not conceive. “Well originally they said I wouldn't be able to fall pregnant, but I have one baby she is three years old. So that was already a miracle,” says Chantal.
Shortly afterwards, she says they tried for a boy.
“We were trying to fall pregnant and at the beginning of January we found out we were pregnant with one. The second appointment there were two babies and the third appointment there were three babies. So we went for the scans to find out if there are any more and they didn't pick up there was any more, it was only three,” says Chantal.
While Chantal was at home, she went to the toilet but had no idea she was in labour.
“Well I could not feel the contractions, and the night before I wet my bed and I thought it’s because I’m in a wheelchair I can't feel when I need to go to the toilet. I need to use intimate catheterisation. So I put on a nappy just to make sure that I won't wet the bed again and then when I went to the bathroom the next morning, I didn't feel like myself. And at about 09:45 I went to the bathroom and I took the nappy off and there was a baby on the nappy,” says Chantal.
Chantal says she was shocked and called out loud for her 13-year-old step son who was in the house with her three-year-old daughter.
The teenager, Joshua Binns, says he quickly rushed in to help with the first baby, but then the other two just popped out.
