{"id":241741,"date":"2021-03-24T09:42:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T14:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=241741"},"modified":"2021-03-22T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T01:40:55","slug":"hospital-security-officer-delivery-baby-er","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/hospital-security-officer-delivery-baby-er\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital security officer helps mom with ‘curbside delivery’ of baby girl outside ER"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On March 8, a brave Minneapolis hospital security officer helped bring a new baby into the world<\/a> when her mother didn’t make it through the emergency room doors. Lacey and Luis Gonzalez’s fourth child, a daughter, wasn’t due for another week when Lacey went into labor.<\/p>\n

“What was probably less than a 10-minute drive felt like forever, just trying to go a few miles… I remember the whole ride, my husband kept saying ‘the water hasn’t broke yet. We’re gonna be OK. We’ll make it. We’ll make it.” However, things took a turn as Lacey’s water broke just as the couple was arriving at the hospital’s emergency room drop-off zone. Lacey recalled<\/a>, “The second we pulled up to the emergency doors, she decided to start entering the world!”<\/p>\n

Security officer Tiffany Owens was the first person Lacey’s frantic husband Luis met when he ran through the emergency room doors in search of help. She remembered, “I asked him the same question that I ask every labor patient that comes in, ‘are they actively pushing?’ And this one time, he said yes.” Officer Owens sprang into action, running out to the van to assist Lacey.<\/p>\n