Patterico's Pontifications

5/27/2010

Baby Born While Mom Drives

Filed under: General — DRJ @ 3:26 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

People do everything while they drive. They eat, they read, they talk on the phone, they even put on makeup. And one even had a baby:

“Twenty-nine-year-old Amanda McBride felt labor pains at work last week and rushed to her car. She picked up the baby’s father, staying in the driver’s seat because he has a history of seizures.

“He was steering and I put it on cruise when the baby was coming, it was just easier,” laughed McBride. “I was like, we’re just cruising at 70.”

She drove to the hospital experiencing mild labor pains. Suddenly her water broke and the baby “just slid out.”

“I just delivered him and I held him here in my lap, because I didn’t know what else to do with the cord still attached,” explained McBride. “He’s breathing and that, I know keeping him upright he’s going to breath. I just kind of held him there and then continued on to town.”

This video says friends call their baby Chevy Joe or Cobalt Joe for the car he was born in. I think they should call him Cruisin’ Joe.

— DRJ

10 Responses to “Baby Born While Mom Drives”

  1. with parents like that, the kid is doomed from the start.

    redc1c4 (fb8750)

  2. Did they give her a ticket for not having a car seat for the kid?

    SGT Ted (c47cc2)

  3. Did they name the baby Ricky Bobby?

    PatHMV (c34b06)

  4. “He was steering and I put it on cruise when the baby was coming, it was just easier,” laughed McBride. “I was like, we’re just cruising at 70.”

    She drove to the hospital experiencing mild labor pains. Suddenly her water broke and the baby “just slid out.”

    Doctor at postpartum checkup: “Um, Mrs. McBride, just so you know for next time, when the baby’s hand comes out and grabs the steering wheel, that’s a good time to slow down and steer on over to the side of the road.”

    no one you know (196ed7)

  5. No. Way. In. Hell. At least not with the labor I had. Not even slightly bloodly likely.

    Sheesh. Pull the heck over and call 911.

    Vivian Louise (643333)

  6. She punched the kid out onto a batch of Sonic wrappers and Dunkin Donuts coffee cups?
    Or is her car cleaner than mine?

    I can only imagine coming into life in this world with an old french fry stuck in my ear… thanks mom.

    Steve G (7d4c78)

  7. Was this something Dr. Spock covered in his book? Would giving birth be considered easier if a lot of women did this?

    MU789 (454be6)

  8. Nurse:

    I’m assuming that’s mustard?

    MD:

    Nurse:

    Janitor: Can I have that fortune cookie?

    Steve G (7d4c78)

  9. This video says friends call their baby Chevy Joe or Cobalt Joe for the car he was born in. I think they should call him Cruisin’ Joe.

    Or maybe Tom Cruise…

    Karl Lembke (fecf72)

  10. It’s a good thing she wasn’t distracted by anything like, ya know, texting.

    Beldar (a0d130)


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