A woman from Utah has been on national headlines for
delivering her healthy baby boy while pulled over
on the side of a highway.
KSL.com reports:
Mariah Ostler was traveling 75 mph in the fast
lane of I-15 Saturday when her water broke.
Hear her.
“I knew the baby was coming and it doesn’t help
to panic. So, I just stayed calm and said, ‘Well, if
I deliver it on my own then I deliver it on my
own. If somebody gets here, somebody gets
here. The baby is here. There’s not much more I
can do about it,'”
she said Sunday from her
room at Brigham City Hospital while holding her
newborn son.
As GOD will Have it for Ostler, help was on the way in
the form of Utah Highway Patrol trooper Josh
Carr and Willard Police Chief Jean Loveland.
Approximately 90 seconds after help arrived,
Ostler gave birth to a 9.9-pound boy on the
shoulder of I-15 just past the Willard exit.
This miraculous birth vegan on Saturday night when
Ostler, 32, of Mantua, whose due date was in
two days, drove her 6-year-old son to her
mother’s house in North Ogden to play with his
cousins.
Along the way, she started having contractions.
Ostler said when she got to her mother’s house
she tried to determine if she was really going
into labor.
W
hen the contractions didn’t stop,
she got in her car and started driving to the
hospital.
“I was hoping that I would make it. But then my
water broke and I called dispatch because once
my water breaks … there’s the baby. There’s no
time once that happens,” she said.
“I was in the fast lane. I was trying to get over
to the slow lane so I could pull over to the side,
but cars wouldn’t let me over. It doesn’t matter
if you have your blinker on or not,” she joked.
Patrol trooper Josh Carr and Willard Police Chief
Jean raced to the side of the road where Ostler’s
car was parked.
When they got to her, she was dilated to
a 10 and couldn’t move.
Carr and Loveland had just enough time to put
on rubber gloves and get a sterile sheet under
Ostler so the baby could be born on something
clean when she delivered.
“He came right out in my hands,” Carr said. “It
was very emotional. Probably next to my own
children’s’ birth, it was a very satisfying moment
in my career.”
“It was quite the learning experience and I’m
glad I had that opportunity,” Loveland said.
Woah! Miraculous ! What do you think?!
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