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• Roadside Birth Ends with Two Babies; Dad Is One of Them

  Barbara and Matt Helmer got a surprise when their new boy, Christopher, decided to make his debut a month early. In the car. On the side of the highway. A 911 transcript captured Matt's bravery and overwhelming sense of calm during the birth of his child. "I'm not doing too good with this," he told a police dispatcher. "I might pass out." Thankfully the paramedics arrived in the nick of time, delivering little Christopher while Matt probably thought about buying a faster car. The sad thing here is the complete lack of respect little Christopher has for his dad. Doesn't the newborn know his dad gets queasy? Couldn't he have waited just a few more minutes? Kids these days .... The roadside birth didn't seem to bother mom Barbara, however. She doesn't recall much about dad's meltdown. "I didn't even have time," she said. "All I did was scream." Posted May 10 2007, 10:32 AM by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) with | with no comments Filed under: baby, birth, babies, daddies, birthing in cars, dad

• Woman Delivers Baby at 100 mph

  I think every woman who has borne a child without drugs can relate to this:  imagine that you are so ready to push that baby out, you know it's time, I mean baby IT'S TIME, when some ever-so-helpful medical-type person says, "Don't push."  Don't what??  Are you freaking kidding me??  There is no.way.in.hell that a woman bent on pushing that %$#*& baby out is going to be able to stop when someone says, "Oh, by the way?  Don't."   This happened to me when my older daughter was born and they felt they needed to get me in the delivery room (it was a medieval hospital that had never heard of the term "birthing suite") and were loathe to the idea of me pushing along the way.  Screw that. So I totally can relate to poor Lisa Tauer, being driven to the hospital by her husband Jerome, when goldarnit she just couldn't help but have that baby right there in the car on the way to the hospital.  So what's new with that? you ask.  That's been done before.  Zillions of times.  Nope, not at 100 mph it hasn't.  Apparently dad-to-be Jerome was so freaking scared to maybe have to deal with this messy baby thing himself that all he could do was speed to the hospital.  Uh, hello, Jerome?  Ever stop to think that you were risking the lives of your wife and that baby there?  By driving 90 and 100 mph through the farmlands of Wisconsin while yelling "Don't push!" to your wife?  Not cool, Jerome.  You should have stopped and at least offered Lisa a granola bar or something.  Anything.  Anything would have been better than being so gripped by your fears of a teeny widdle baby that you had to speed like that.  Get a grip, Jerome; you're a daddy now.  It's time to grow up.   Posted Mar 24 2007, 09:15 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: babies, Wisconsin, birthing in cars, daddies full of fear