Woman gives birth on tanning bed in Zutphen

It is a working day that Fokko Beuker will remember for a long time. The owner of the Beauty Passage tanning studio in Zutphen suddenly hears cries for help on Saturday. A customer - who did not know she was pregnant - suddenly gives birth to a daughter. Suddenly Fokko is a 'midwife'. He looks back on a hectic weekend.

Woman gives birth on tanning bed in Zutphen

A woman gave birth unexpectedly at a tanning salon in Zutphen on Saturday, unaware she was pregnant. The salon owner, Fokko Beuker, was the only person present to assist before emergency responders arrived.“I’ve seen a lot in my life, but never this,” Beuker said. “I walked in and saw the baby’s head coming out.”

It remains something miraculous. One woman has to bend over backwards for years to hopefully get pregnant and the other has no idea for 9 months and then one day, completely bewildered, starts pushing out something that turns out to be a baby. The latter was the case for a woman in Zutphen, who suddenly gave birth to a daughter this morning during a visit to the Beauty Passage tanning salon. The hero there turned out to be Fokko, the owner of th…

A woman gave birth in a tanning studio in Zutphen on Saturday. She did not know she was pregnant, studio owner Fokko Beuker confirmed reports by Omroep Gelderland. Beuker responded to the woman's cries for help, called 112 and assisted with the birth.