Friends help mother in need deliver newborn

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Iliana Navunitabua with her baby is surrounded by neighbours Paulyn Roberta (left) and Salome Ratuniyarawa at her home in Legalega, Nadi.Picture: REINAL CHAND

WHEN Salome Ratuniyarawa travelled from Sigatoka to visit her best friend Paulyn Roberta in Nadi after five years, she did not know the reunion would be a “life-changing” moment.

The duo were forced to draw on their maternal instincts and skills after a pregnant neighbour’s baby decided to enter the world early.

When emergency numbers failed to elicit a response, the best friends helped deliver Iliana Navunitabua’s baby boy inside her Legalega, Nadi, home.

Paulyn said the experience would forever be engraved in the depths of their hearts.