A Texas dad-to-be did everything a supportive husband is expected to do when his wife went into labor at 42 weeks pregnant in the middle of the night, including capturing the extraordinary moment she gave birth just outside the hospital doors using a GoPro camera.
What resulted is an agonizing nearly 10 minute video which shows the couple speeding 95 mph down the highway on June 28 towards Texas Children's Hospital in Houston after Kristen Dickerson went into labor some two weeks after her due date, ABC News reported. The expectant mom, who has two other boys, wails in agony as Troy Dickerson urges her to hold on.
"I can't make it! I can't make it," Kristin says between screams, "We need to stop." but the husband drove on, trying to calm his wife, assuring her that he would deliver the baby if necessary. "By the time we got to the Sweetwater exit, I was pretty sure we weren't going to make it to the hospital," Kristin told Click2Houston.com.
As the couple arrived at the hospital, Troy along with a valet attendant tried to coax Kristin to sit in a wheelchair, but the baby was already on its way. "She had gotten out of the car and she had just froze, like stood there. And me and the valet guy were like, 'Sit down! Sit down in the wheelchair!'" Troy told the station.
In the video, Kristen responds that she can feel the baby's head. "I said, 'On the next contraction, push.' And on the next contraction, she pushed and he came flying out," the proud papa recalled.
Kristin was standing up when she delivered baby Truett at 2:05 a.m., with her husband there to safely catch the baby as he came out. By that time, a team of nearly 10 nurses had rushed to assist the family. Incidentally, she was due for an induction the next day, where she also works as a childbirth educator.
She told ABC News that her husband filmed the births of their other two children, Turner, 4, and Tillman, 2, as well. "I'm thrilled to have the footage," Kristin told ABC News. "I'm more hesitant to send it to people, because it's such an intimate moment for us, but as a birth educator, it's really cool to let people see that our bodies know what to do."
