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A mile marker on the Pennsylvania Turnpike has new meaning for a couple after they unexpectedly gave birth there on the side of the road.<\/p>\n

Nick and Sarah Holmes gave birth to their daughter, Lottie, on mile marker 18.1 last month, according to a press release<\/a> from the turnpike. Nick Holmes drove the turnpike daily for his job with People’s Gas, and frequently passed that mile marker, which now has new meaning for him.<\/p>\n

Sarah Holmes told KDKA<\/a> they were on their way to a midwifery center in Pittsburgh. “I was like, ‘We need to go, we need to leave,'” she said. “Our goal was the midwife center, that’s who I went through with her, that’s where we were going to deliver. Have like a nice water birth is what I was hoping for.”<\/p>\n

But Lottie wasn’t going to wait. “Right after he said, ‘if you feel the need to push, we’ll pull over,’ and then my water broke and I was like, ‘my water broke,’ and within a couple minutes, I was like, ‘I gotta push,’ I was like, ‘she’s \u2014 it’s coming,” Sarah said.<\/p>\n

Nick, a volunteer firefighter, relied on his training when he realized his wife was going to give birth, right then and there.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just jumped into action,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s one of those things that\u2019s hard to explain unless you\u2019re in that position. You think you\u2019d be a nervous wreck, but you know what the end game has to be, and there were no other options at that point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Equipment Operator Bob Demko was washing his vehicle at the Homewood Maintenance Facility when he heard the call go out over the radio. \u201cIt sounded like they said a baby was coming or a baby was coming out,\u201d Demko said. \u201cIt definitely makes your ears perk up.\u201d So he jumped in his truck and headed there, beating the ambulance by 10 minutes.<\/p>\n

READ: Baby born in McDonald\u2019s parking lot given appropriately adorable nickname<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

While Nick Holmes stayed on the phone with 911, Demko tried to help however he could. \u201cI was the first one there, and I got to see a lot of stuff I never in my life thought I\u2019d see,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t have kids, and I told my wife later that I always wanted to witness this, and never thought I would.\u201d<\/p>\n

He continued, “I asked them, \u2018What do you need?\u2019 And he said, \u2018She\u2019s doing all the work!”<\/p>\n

Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Erik Cox arrived shortly after Demko, and together, they helped make sure little Lottie was born safely.<\/p>\n

“She was out in like, two-and-a-half pushes,” Sarah said.<\/p>\n

Lottie weighed 8 lbs, 11 oz, and spent two days in the Allegheny Health Network Wexford Hospital NICU before heading home to join her family. “I’m super proud of my husband; he did so well,” Sarah said. “I wasn’t super freaked out or fearful; it was just a natural thing that had to happen.”<\/p>\n

For Demko, it’s an experience he’ll never forget. \u201cIt was really nice to see something positive happen out there \u2013 a new life,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just very happy I could be part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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