Mom delivers son soon after she is shot

A woman gave birth to a miracle baby this weekend after she was shot twice when she, her partner and three daughters were ambushed in an attempted hijacking.

Dr Deon van der Merwe, the gynaecologist who performed the caesarean on her after she was shot on Friday night, said: “It takes a very special kind of barbarian to shoot five rounds at a vehicle occupied by a pregnant woman and three terrified girls.

“Had the bullets been fired a few degrees off, Renske and her partner would not have made it to the N4 tollgate, never mind the hospital.”

Renske Erasmus, 31, and her partner, 38-year-old Christo Mulder, were both wounded in the hijacking attempt just off the N4 road.

The couple and their three daughters were on their way home from Delmas and had turned off the N4 onto a gravel road when three gunmen opened fire.

Mulder was opening a gate when they were ambushed and both he and Erasmus were hit twice.

In a moment of panic, Erasmus drove away, heading for the Middelburg Toll Plaza, where she drove through one of the boom gates.

Traffic officers who were patrolling in the area came to her assistance.

She had just told them that she had left her boyfriend behind when he turned up on foot, wounded and bleeding.

The family rushed to Life Midmed Hospital and had just been stabilised when Erasmus went into labour.

Before she had even gone into surgery, an emergency caesarean section had to be done and she delivered a baby boy.

The miracle baby is to be named, Fourie, but he will be given a second name for being such a fighter.

The little boy, who was born at just over 36 weeks, weighed 3.6kg and was 50cm long.

Both he and his mother are recovering well.

Mulder was discharged so he could take care of the three girls, aged nine, seven and four. They were not injured in the ambush.

The shooting could easily have claimed the lives of both Fourie and his mother, who said that it was by the grace of God that her son was born alive and well. – Caxton News Service

It was by the grace of God that my son was born alive and well. Renske Erasmus Baby’s mother