Barbershop baby’s mom recalls harrowing experience

Nandy Collins (right) cuddles her baby next to her partner, Otis Barry and their two other children yesterday.

Nandy Collins, the young mother who delivered a premature baby boy at a Nabaclis barber shop on the East Coast Demerara on Saturday night recounted a harrowing experience in which she almost gave up on the birth of her first son.

Yesterday, during a visit to the family’s home at Ann’s Grove, ECD, the 23-year old mother of three and her partner Otis Barry were high in praise of barber Devon Sam, who delivered the five-pound baby at his barber shop, a few doors away from the Dr CC Nicholson Hospital where there were no medical staff at the time.

Collins recounted that around 8 pm on Saturday, she began to experience “baby pains” and she and her partner walked out to the road from their home aback of Ann’s Grove in search of