“She decided she wanted to come out right there,” said Chloe Capps, baby Navy’s mother.
MCKINNEY, Texas — Like Chloe Capps, most mothers know what it’s like to be expecting, but at 6 pounds, 15 ounces, one baby girl has expectations of her own.
“It’s been the talk around the hospital,” Capps said.
Her due date was Dec. 19. Although it’s not out of the ordinary for babies to be born early, how she was born brought shock.
“Well, I was at work,” said Capps. “I started what I thought was cramping but they were contractions, and I had called my mom.”
Debbie Glynn, Capps’ mother, called ahead to the hospital while Capps’ manager drove her the 10-minute drive to Medical City McKinney Hospital.
“I parked very far away, was running across the parking lot and see the truck, see the swarm of staff,” said Glynn.
Nurses and other staff met Capps as they pulled in the Emergency Room driveway.
“She gives me the like, ‘no, I need to get this baby out right now,’” said Jayde Warren, Medical City McKinney Hospital Registered Nurse.
“I tried to hold her in to get into the hospital, but I guess with me stressing a little bit, she was just felt it and ready. She was ready to come,” said Capps.
“I arrived at 11:11 and she was born at 11:15,” said Glynn.
Capps’ daughter made her own entrance just feet from the hospital’s entrance.
“It seemed like a scene from a movie. It was a little surreal,” said Glynn.
It is not surreal for hospital staff who say they’ve had a number of parking lot births over the past few months.
“We’ve made ourselves more prepared for this to happen. We have an OB kit, and we make sure that we’ve got the baby warmer plugged in so that if anything were to happen, we’ve got the stuff there,” said Capps.
Her delivery stirred quite the excitement.
“When everybody left yesterday and I was just in here alone, I was crying, but it was just happy tears,” said Capps.
Names starting with “N” are a family tradition, so welcome Navy, who was determined to be born now.
