{"id":268598,"date":"2022-05-23T13:26:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T18:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=268598"},"modified":"2022-05-22T15:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-22T20:16:51","slug":"woman-delivers-baby-roadside-children-wait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/woman-delivers-baby-roadside-children-wait\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman delivers baby on roadside as children wait in the car"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Heather Skaats had planned on delivering her baby at home, as she had with her previous children. But that plan went by the wayside when the Kentucky mom ended up giving birth while out running errands. Amazingly, she delivered her own baby while her five other children waited in the car. Then she wrapped up her newborn and drove home with him laying on her chest.<\/p>\n<p>Skaats detailed the whole event in a Facebook post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was literally driving in the car with all the kids when I felt like I needed to pull over,&#8221; she wrote. &#8220;Got out of the car, went to the other side in the grass and literally had a baby. It was so quick! I only thought these things happened in movies! I then proceeded to drive to the house with him still attached where my midwives arrived about 10 minutes later.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fheather.meyer.21%2Fposts%2F8208993652459903&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"678\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/florida-woman-delivers-baby-parking-lot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Whoa, baby! Florida woman delivers baby in parking lot of birth center<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a conversation with TODAY Parents, Skaats explained that her previous labors lasted hours, so although she had been feeling light contractions when she left the house, she expected to have plenty of time to run her errands.\u00a0\u201cI thought I wouldn\u2019t have a baby in my arms until eight or ten hours later,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/parents\/babies\/mom-gives-birth-side-road-rcna29167\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, she quickly realized that labor was progressing fast.\u00a0\u201cI pulled over \u2014 assured the kids that everything was OK \u2014 and then I grabbed my phone and got out of the van,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cI put my hand down there and his head started coming out with his body. I didn\u2019t even have to push. It was so quick. I was on the phone with my husband, Nick, and 20 seconds later, I was like, \u2018He\u2019s here!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The newborn was still attached to the placenta inside her body, so Skaats carefully wrapped him in a blanket, kept him close to her chest, and drove home, where she met her midwife. Despite the ordeal, the baby was healthy, weighing seven pounds.\u00a0&#8220;We had to pick the grass off him,&#8221; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/woman-delivers-her-own-baby-150935611.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">added<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Skaats said that she was able to remain calm throughout the process and intuitively knew what to do.\u00a0\u201cI think having home births in the past sort of taught me to trust my body,\u201d she said. \u201cKnowing the process really helped.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Skaats had planned on delivering her baby at home, as she had with her previous children. 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