BECOMING A PARENT FOR THAT FIRST TIME CAN BE NERVE WRACKING, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU BECOME A PARENT IN AN UNUSUAL PLACE. OUR LEAH PHILLIPS HAS THE ONCE IN A LIFETIME STORY OF HOW ONE UPSTATE COUPLE BROUGHT THEIR BABY BOY INTO THE WORLD. IT’S A STORY ALL NEW. AT 6:00. IMAGINE THIS YOU’RE THREE DAYS FROM YOUR DUE DATE, AND YOU’RE ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL, GETTING READY TO WELCOME YOUR FIRST CHILD INTO THE WORLD. EXCEPT YOU DON’T QUITE MAKE IT THERE. WELL, THAT WAS THE CASE FOR ONE UPSTATE COUPLE WHO WELCOMED THEIR FIRST BABY BOY INTO THE WORLD. BUT THEIR STORY DIDN’T BEGIN IN A HOSPITAL ROOM LIKE YOU MIGHT EXPECT. IT STARTED IN QUITE AN UNUSUAL PLACE RIGHT HERE. KIND OF CAME UP TO A RED LIGHT TO GET ON HIGHWAY 25. THE LIGHT WENT RED, AND AS WE WERE BREAKING, HER WATER BROKE, TRADING A HOSPITAL BED FOR THE PASSENGER SEAT OF THEIR HONDA CRV. ERIC AND MIRANDA COOPER AREN’T YOUR TYPICAL FIRST TIME PARENTS. I THINK I COULD IMMEDIATELY TELL THAT WE WERE IN THE MOMENT WE WERE IN TROUBLE. AFTER GOING INTO LABOR ON THE WAY TO THE HOSPITAL, THE COUPLE HAD NO OTHER CHOICE BUT TO MAKE A PIT STOP IN THIS RESTAURANT PARKING LOT. NOT A ONE ON ONE PHONE MIDWIFE ON THE PHONE, ON SPEAKER. AND THEN I WENT AROUND TO THE TO HER SIDE OF THE CAR, AND I MEAN, HE WAS THERE IN THREE MINUTES. THREE MINUTES WAS ALL IT TOOK FOR BABY COOPER TO MAKE HIS GRAND ENTRANCE. AND THEIR PARENTAL INSTINCTS WERE ALREADY ON FULL DISPLAY. ERIC, IS THERE ANY SORT OF MEDICAL BACKGROUND THERE? NO. NONE. I MEAN, I WORK WITH MY HANDS, SO MAYBE THAT HELPED. AND IT WASN’T LONG BEFORE LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENTS AND EMS ARRIVED. IT WAS JUST A MILLION MILES AN HOUR. EVERYTHING HAPPENED SO FAST. BOTH SLATER, MARIETTA AND GLASSY MOUNTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENTS, AS WELL AS THE GREENVILLE COUNTY EMS, HELPED THE FAMILY FINALLY COMPLETE THEIR JOURNEY TO THE HOSPITAL. SHE’S TOUGHER THAN I AM. SHE TOOK IT REALLY WELL. SHE WAS IN THE PASSENGER SEAT OF THE VEHICLE. WE ENSURED THAT THE BABY HAD SKIN TO SKIN CONTACT WITH THE MOTHER. WHAT STARTED AS A TYPICAL TRIP TO THE HOSPITAL. NOW THE STORY OF A LIFETIME. I’M SURE WE’LL BE HEARING ABOUT HIS STORY HIS WHOLE LIFE. HE’LL PROBABLY BE TIRED OF HEARING ABOU
Couple delivers their firstborn inside car along South Carolina highway
For first-time parents Eric and Miranda Stoner, the journey to meet their new baby boy didn’t end in a hospital room, as you might expect. Instead, it happened on the side of a South Carolina highway, parked outside of the Williams Pit Stop restaurant. “We kind of came up to a red light to get onto Highway 25,” said new dad Eric Cooper, while recalling the day it happened. “The light went red, and as we were braking, her water broke.”From that point on, the couple had no other choice but to make a pit stop in the nearest parking lot and take matters into their own hands. “I think I could immediately tell we were in the moment,” Eric said. The pair quickly contacted their midwife, as well as 911, but before first responders even made it to the scene, their baby boy, Cooper, was welcomed into the world from the passenger seat of the couple’s Honda CR-V. Slater-Marietta and Glassy Mountain Fire Departments, as well as Greenville County EMS, arrived shortly after baby Cooper’s arrival and helped transport the family to the hospital. “It was just a million miles an hour, everything happened so fast,” said Capt. Chandler McMakin with the Slater-Marietta Fire Department. “She’s tougher than I am; she took it really well.”Both Miranda and Cooper are healthy, and the parents tell sister station WYFF they are already smitten with their family’s newest addition.
For first-time parents Eric and Miranda Stoner, the journey to meet their new baby boy didn’t end in a hospital room, as you might expect.
Instead, it happened on the side of a South Carolina highway, parked outside of the Williams Pit Stop restaurant.
“We kind of came up to a red light to get onto Highway 25,” said new dad Eric Cooper, while recalling the day it happened. “The light went red, and as we were braking, her water broke.”
From that point on, the couple had no other choice but to make a pit stop in the nearest parking lot and take matters into their own hands.
“I think I could immediately tell we were in the moment,” Eric said.
The pair quickly contacted their midwife, as well as 911, but before first responders even made it to the scene, their baby boy, Cooper, was welcomed into the world from the passenger seat of the couple’s Honda CR-V.
Slater-Marietta and Glassy Mountain Fire Departments, as well as Greenville County EMS, arrived shortly after baby Cooper’s arrival and helped transport the family to the hospital.
“It was just a million miles an hour, everything happened so fast,” said Capt. Chandler McMakin with the Slater-Marietta Fire Department. “She’s tougher than I am; she took it really well.”
Both Miranda and Cooper are healthy, and the parents tell sister station WYFF they are already smitten with their family’s newest addition.
