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If your biggest accomplishment while stuck in traffic was finishing that book you’ve been putting off or doing your nails, one woman from Berkeley, California has us all beat: she delivered her own baby.
Cassandra and Tyler Seale tell KRON4 News that they were actually on their way to the hospital on Saturday when it happened. They hit very bad traffic on the I-880, as a result of an accident caused by a drunk driver, so they ended up stuck in their car for hours.
In the early hours of morning, Cassandra felt the first contractions starting. She didn’t have much time to panic because, almost immediately, she went into labor and she felt the baby coming.
“Call 911, call 911, I feel his head,” she desperately told her husband when she realized what was happening. Of course, this being a traffic jam, calling 911 didn’t do much in terms of helping, so she ended up delivering her own baby, a healthy baby boy.
“The next thing I know, he just starts coming out. I was on my hands and knees on the passenger side, I caught him,” Cassandra recalls. When the EMTs arrived, “they helped me get out of the car into a gurney, and from there they had the placenta and put that on the gurney with me,” she says for the same publication.
The boy was born with the cord wrapped around his neck three times, but Cassandra knew what to do to help him breathe. She says she wasn’t about to give up the fight now, after so many struggles to conceive and 9 months carrying the baby. Not even delivering her own child in a car could muffle her maternal instincts.
Cassandra jokes that, once arrived at the hospital, the staff told her that she could have not come at all, since she’d handled herself so well and the child was in perfect health.
In the early hours of morning, Cassandra felt the first contractions starting. She didn’t have much time to panic because, almost immediately, she went into labor and she felt the baby coming.
“Call 911, call 911, I feel his head,” she desperately told her husband when she realized what was happening. Of course, this being a traffic jam, calling 911 didn’t do much in terms of helping, so she ended up delivering her own baby, a healthy baby boy.
“The next thing I know, he just starts coming out. I was on my hands and knees on the passenger side, I caught him,” Cassandra recalls. When the EMTs arrived, “they helped me get out of the car into a gurney, and from there they had the placenta and put that on the gurney with me,” she says for the same publication.
The boy was born with the cord wrapped around his neck three times, but Cassandra knew what to do to help him breathe. She says she wasn’t about to give up the fight now, after so many struggles to conceive and 9 months carrying the baby. Not even delivering her own child in a car could muffle her maternal instincts.
Cassandra jokes that, once arrived at the hospital, the staff told her that she could have not come at all, since she’d handled herself so well and the child was in perfect health.
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