What can brown do for you? Well, for UPS delivery driver Craig Ramirez, he took “rapid delivery” to a whole new level last week when he delivered his fifth kid in his living room. In the dark, no less.
Ramirez’s wife Lisa woke him at 3:30 am to tell him she was in labor. They’d been through this four previous times, so they both felt they knew the drill. However, Lisa was putting on her shoes at the front door, ready to head to the hospital, when she started yelling that she felt the head.
His reaction was about the same as mine would be in the same situation: "I said, 'No, it can't be coming. It can't. That's not even in the realm of reality.'"
He called 911, but there wasn’t enough time to get there. Lisa stood up and leaned on the sofa, and Craig put his hands on his daughter’ head, and helped her slip out into the world.
He said he was guided by what he’s seen the doctors do in the births of their previous four children, but was pretty terrified. "I thought, 'I can't do this.' But there was nothing else I could do. It was me. That's it. I said, 'Craig, it's all you, man.' "
The 911 operator told him to tie off the cord, which he did, and the paramedics arrived totake them to the hospital to get checked over.
Little Amelia Yvonne and her mother are doing fine. And dad is taking tons of ribbing from his fellow delivery drivers.
