Kathy Swearingen from Indiana worked for 31 years as an EMT. But her skills were in great demand when she delivered her great-granddaughter at a gas station.
Swearingen of Clay City said that her granddaughter, Ashley Swearingen, woke her up early for a ride to the hospital in Terre Haute.
Her water broke while traveling down State Road 59 and her grandmother pulled into a gas station at the intersection of State Roads 46 and 59, where she soon found herself becoming a great-grandmother to baby girl Skylar Swearingen.
“I worked EMS for 31 years, and there is nothing more precious in the whole world than to see a baby take its first breath,” Kathy said.
She said she was assisted in the delivery by Indiana State Excise Police Lt. Christopher Bard, who saw the women while driving home from his shift.
Bard escorted the women and newborn to Union Hospital, where Skylar weighed in at 6 pounds, 14 ounces.
A desperate emergency rescue was launched after a pregnant woman gave birth squatting above a public toilet, but in a horrifying twist, lost the baby when it was accidentally flushed away.
Rescue workers had to rip out the toilet and crack waste pipes to find the tiny newborn baby.
According to witnesses, the woman went into the toilet in Zhaoyang District, Beijing and asked her husband to wait outside.
But when she gave birth to a baby, hovering over the toilet, the baby dropped into the toilet and was accidentally flushed down by waste water.
At first the firefighters could not locate the baby, but as they tore up more of the tiled flooring, they located the tiny newborn fifteen minutes later.
The baby is currently in a critical condition.
A little duckling in England has found an unusual foster parent after its mother was killed by a fox.
Dennis the duckling was found abandoned next to a brook in Mountfitchet Castle, in Stansted, Essex, when the site owners were out for a walk.
Worries about how Dennis would keep warm and clean on a cold day were soon dispelled when 4-year-old Fred the Labrador took over and licked him him clean, sending the orphaned duckling into a contented sleep snuggled up against him, said castle owner Jeremy Goldsmith.
He said the pair has been inseparable ever since.
Mr Goldsmith said: “Fred grew up with all our animals and has such a loving nature that he always fathers any orphans, he even took over looking after Lupin, a Fallow deer, when she was tiny.”
Dennis will now join the rest of the animals that already live at the historic castle where they all enjoy being hand fed by visitors.
A small child has reportedly fallen victim to Chinese-quality coinage, with the currency exploding in his hands for reasons unknown.
The exploding money was encountered by a 3-year-old boy in China’s Fujian province, when it blew up in his hands.
According to his mother, he had just learned how to pay for the small rides at local shops, and she had given him a 1 yuan coin for this purpose.
No sooner had she taken her eyes off him as he went to play on the rides than she heard a loud bang and a scream, and came running over to find the boy surrounded by smoke and the remains of the coin on the floor.
The boy escaped with minor burns to his hand.
Similar incidents involving small children, exploding currency and electric vehicles were reported in 2007 and 2008, leading some to speculate that some combination of electrical mishap and dubious coinage may have been at fault.
When April Portis brought her 11-month-old, Jahmai, to Virginia Beach, VA to meet his grandparents for the first time, she expected the elegant splendor that only a Motel 6 can provide.
While the family was in their rented accomodation, the grandmother reportedly notice that the child – who is teething – had a spoon of unknown origin in his mouth.
“She looked at it and she’s like ‘look at this,’” Portis said. “I took it from her [and] the back of the spoon was all burnt up and [on] the top of the spoon was the residue from the cocaine on it.”
Portis called police who tested the spoon for cocaine. With the spoon testing positive, our jittery teether was then rushed to the hospital.
After returning from the hospital, Motel 6 executives dutifully refunded Portis the fee for that night and moved the family to another room.
Her family noticed the room had a foul smell, and after searching found animal feces in the corner. They called a maid to check it out.
“The maid was kind of bent down like this, saying ‘I don’t see anything, I don’t see anything,’” said Ronald Hartshorn, the child’s grandfather, as he demonstrated what happened. “And when I went like this…that’s when the crack pipe fell out of the other side of the bed on the floor.”
“It ruined my vacation her vacation everyone’s vacation,” Hartshorn said.
Virginia Beach police spokesperson Grazia Moyers said this is not a police matter. There is currently no police report or investigation at this time.
Moyers said at this point, it could fall on the health department to look into the allegations and make whatever recommendations are needed.
A woman was speeding while trying to get her pregnant daughter who was in labor, to hospital.
Donna Richmond got pulled over on Tuesday morning by an Ohio state trooper on her way to a Columbus hospital.
She told reporters that the State Highway Patrol officer told her she was exceeding the speed limit by going 90 mph.
That’s when daughter Debbie Richmond says she screamed from the front passenger seat, “I’m in labor!”
The trooper let them go with the warning.
The delay from the traffic stop, however, kept them from reaching the hospital in time, so Debbie Richmond gave birth to a daughter in her mother’s Hyundai.
The father, Randall Altman, says he was in the back seat “freaking out.”
This was not the end of the strangeness.
According to family members, Altman’s parents hit a deer and totaled their car on the way to the meet the family at the hospital.
Altman’s parents were uninjured in the crash.
