‘He’s here. You have to catch him!’: Baby dramatically enters the world in emergency room hallway

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“We made it just through the doors.

I said, ‘Travis, this is it. He’s here. You have to catch him. And he looked and he realized I was right. I could feel his head crowning with my hand, and he reached in without hesitation. I pushed one time and my body did the rest. And there he was, right there in the emergency room floor. She gently pulled him up to my chest and I just remember my husband putting his hand on my shoulder and eventually grabbing a towel to slide up under my head because he was worried about me being uncomfortable. That man is amazing. He is the best father and the best husband and I don’t know what I would have done without him that day.

pregnant woman stands in hospital hallway with pants down while man crouches to help her
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pregnant woman squats down as a nurse holds her up and husband holds his hands under her legs
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Nurse and husband kneel next to woman who holds new born baby on hospital floor in a pool of blood
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I remember settling in and thinking, ‘This really happened. He’s on my chest. We just had a baby within five minutes of being inside the hospital.’ We had our five sweet, sweet daughters come in and they were so excited. This was the first boy for us and they were unsure, but the moment they laid eyes on him it was just perfection.

woman lies on the floor with newborn on her chest while nurse cleans off the baby
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newborn baby lies on mothers chest wrapped in a blanket
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mother gives newborn baby a kiss on the forehead as it lies on her chest
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husband leans to kiss wife who is breastfeeding their newborn baby in hospital bed
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It was the most empowering thing ever to look back and not have this fuzzy memory of it all, but to see it on film the way it happened. It was beautiful and something that I’m going to treasure for the rest of my life.”

This story was submitted to Love What Matters by photographer Tammy Karin of Little Leapling Photography in Manhattan, Kansas. 

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