Fireman Helps Woman In Labor But Doesn't Know Yet He Just Delivered His Future Daughter

Aug 27, 2019 by apost team

Some of the calls that firemen respond to end up changing their lives. The job usually entails putting out fires and rescuing people from burning buildings, but this situation that fireman Marc Hadden dealt with was more unusual. This time, when Hadden saved someone's life, he changed his own life as well. CNN reported on the story.

Hadden described that day in November as a typically slow day.

"I will never forget that day. It was a day when a lot of things came full circle," Marc Hadden told CNN. 

He was having dinner, and there hadn't been any activity that day yet. Having no calls created a sense of anticipation that was fitting for what happened next. The call they received was from a woman who reported that she had severe pains in her abdomen.

When the emergency personnel arrived, they discovered that the lady was about to give birth. Unfortunately, the woman had been in labor for too long to take her to the hospital. The firefighters realized that the situation was critical. They gave her oxygen, plugged in some intravenous equipment and loaded her into the ambulance.

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However, before the ambulance could leave, Hadden's partner called out that the baby was coming already, so they had to deliver it in the ambulance. The baby came out very quickly before the woman's clothes could be cut. As soon as the baby was delivered, it was handed to Hadden.

"We went from caring for one patient to two: the woman and the baby," said Hadden. 

The fireman took the baby to a nearby hospital to provide proper care for the newborn. Two days afterward, Hadden called the hospital to check on the infant. The hospital told Hadden that the woman, who Hadden suspected was homeless, was putting the baby up for adoption.

Coincidentally, Hadden and his wife were trying to have a baby at that time, so the opportunity to adopt this baby seemed like a message from the powers of fate. Hadden decided to adopt the baby, and she went home two days after Hadden got the news about the adoption opportunity.

Grace, who is nicknamed Gracie, is now five years old. She does gymnastics, and she will begin attending a kindergarten school in the fall where Hadden's wife teaches.

The Hadden family also has two other children. They are boys aged 12 and 14. They both love their sister very much, and she shares the same affection for her adoptive siblings. Hadden describes his own bond with Gracie as one that is "tighter than thieves." Little Gracie knows about her birth and adoption, and she proudly tells people that her daddy delivered her in an ambulance.

“If you ask her where she was born, she says, ‘My daddy delivered me in the back of an ambulance,'" said the beaming father.

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