There’s badass, and there’s a woman who can deliver her own baby (or twins!) in traffic, on the way to the hospital, while also calming down her husband and giving him directions to get there faster.
Dacia Pittman from Ohio is this kind of woman. She tells The Today that, while she dreaded the idea of a C-section because she wanted a natural birth, she never imagined it would be this… natural. Giving birth in the car with the husband at the wheel and their 2 sons in the backseat was more than what she was imagining for this experience.
She says she knew they had to go to the hospital when the “cramps” she had started feeling became more persistent. She packed the kids to drop them off at her sister (which she never managed to do) and got her husband and her hospital bag into her mother’s Jeep – and off they went.
The ride to the hospital isn’t a long one, Pittman says, so imagine how shocked she was when, within minutes, she felt the first of her twins coming. She told her husband that they weren’t “going to make it” to the hospital and proceeded to delivering her children on her own.
First came the boy and then the girl, and Pittman made sure everything was ok with them while also giving her husband instructions on how to get to the hospital, because, apparently, he had forgotten the way there.
“I showed him how to get there,” she said. “My husband was panicked a little. He said ‘Babe, what do I do?’ I said, ‘They are healthy and alive and crying… you don’t have to speed.’”
In addition to calming him down, Dacia also helped him when they pulled in at the hospital. “I said, ‘Casually walk in and tell them we have babies out here that need to be taken in.’ I got out of the jeep and crawled onto the stretcher. Mind you I was naked. The doctors were pretty surprised.”
No offense to the badass woman, but she sure makes her husband sound like a wuss. Not surprisingly, he did not talk to the media about this special ride in the Jeep, so we have only one side of the story – hers.
She says she knew they had to go to the hospital when the “cramps” she had started feeling became more persistent. She packed the kids to drop them off at her sister (which she never managed to do) and got her husband and her hospital bag into her mother’s Jeep – and off they went.
The ride to the hospital isn’t a long one, Pittman says, so imagine how shocked she was when, within minutes, she felt the first of her twins coming. She told her husband that they weren’t “going to make it” to the hospital and proceeded to delivering her children on her own.
First came the boy and then the girl, and Pittman made sure everything was ok with them while also giving her husband instructions on how to get to the hospital, because, apparently, he had forgotten the way there.
“I showed him how to get there,” she said. “My husband was panicked a little. He said ‘Babe, what do I do?’ I said, ‘They are healthy and alive and crying… you don’t have to speed.’”
In addition to calming him down, Dacia also helped him when they pulled in at the hospital. “I said, ‘Casually walk in and tell them we have babies out here that need to be taken in.’ I got out of the jeep and crawled onto the stretcher. Mind you I was naked. The doctors were pretty surprised.”
No offense to the badass woman, but she sure makes her husband sound like a wuss. Not surprisingly, he did not talk to the media about this special ride in the Jeep, so we have only one side of the story – hers.