{"id":318066,"date":"2024-09-03T16:05:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=318066"},"modified":"2024-09-03T14:50:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T19:50:48","slug":"paraprofessional-birth-bathroom-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/paraprofessional-birth-bathroom-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"Paraprofessional gives birth in school bathroom with help of teacher, principal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A team of educational professionals at an elementary school in Texas enjoyed a unique bonding experience when a paraprofessional went into labor 10 weeks early and gave birth in a school bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texomashomepage.com\/news\/surreal-cunningham-teacher-principal-help-deliver-baby-in-school-bathroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KFDX<\/a>, paraprofessional Paige Lockstedt wasn&#8217;t feeling well and was talking with L.I.F.E. teacher Ashley Strain about possibly going home early, when she needed to use the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p>Strain explained, &#8220;Paige said she wasn&#8217;t feeling well, so I was trying to tell her to go home, and she started to walk to find [Principal Amy] Simmons, and I was like, &#8216;No, I&#8217;ll find Simmons. You go home. She said, &#8216;Well, I&#8217;m going to go to the bathroom,&#8217; and she called me and said, &#8216;My water just broke.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yggQKtb2F4E?si=A75fDaCTSRpefJQ8\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Simmons and Strain raced to Lockstedt, called 911, and got her into a wheelchair and out in front of the school&#8217;s main entrance to wait for an ambulance to arrive. But it didn&#8217;t arrive quickly enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMs. Strain and I ran into the bathroom with Ms. Paige, and she delivered a very beautiful baby girl,\u201d Simmons said. \u201cWe don\u2019t know exactly what time, but not long\u2014maybe five or six minutes after we got the call that her water broke. So, it all happened very fast.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/sylvester-stallone-abortion-survivor-hanger-work\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Sylvester Stallone reveals his mom tried to abort him: \u2018The hanger didn\u2019t work\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First responders arrived at the school and took over the care of Lockstedt and her baby girl. Strain and Simmons went back to their usual jobs at the school.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; said Strain, &#8220;it just feels surreal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Simmons agreed, &#8220;Surreal is really the only word that I can come up with to describe the whole situation. Like, never in a million years did I ever think I would have to do that at school. And I did, and I&#8217;m just glad that they&#8217;re okay and that they&#8217;re healthy and that they&#8217;re well taken care of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lockstedt&#8217;s daughter weighed just two pounds and nine ounces and was taken to the hospital&#8217;s neonatal intensive care unit where she is said to be doing well. She may never know the exact time she was born, but she will always have a fun birth story to share.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/resist-pressure-to-dispense-the-abortion-pill\/\"><b><i>Urge Walmart, Costco, Kroger, and other major chains to resist pressure to dispense the abortion pill<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of educational professionals at an elementary school in Texas enjoyed a unique bonding experience when a paraprofessional went into labor 10 weeks early and gave birth in a school bathroom. 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