LETHBRIDGE- To take in and fully appreciate a miracle, most people would agree that more than 30 seconds be required.
But for a southern Alberta couple, 30 seconds is all it took to witness the miracle of life with a surprise, at a home delivery.
On March 22, their baby was coming and something as small as getting to the hospital wasn’t going to stop the couple’s fourth daughter, Sophia, from coming into this world.
“I mean, I was freaking out as you could imagine. How badly was I freaking out?” Kevin Reimer asksnew mom Ashley Fries.
“I can’t remember,” replied Fries.
Seems like a normal statement coming from parents to be, but for mom and dad, a freak out was warranted when Fries suddenly went into labour.
“I didn’t believeher. Not at first, she had to make it really clear and be really firm,” Reimer remembers.”We get our stuff and we’re going out the front door and Ashley’s like, ‘No, we’re going back! We’re having this baby right now.’”
A 911 call was quickly made.
“It basically went this quick, ‘We’re having a baby, we’re having a baby,'” adds Reimer’s mother, Maureen Furtado, of the frantic phone 911 call. “We’re having this baby right now. OK, we’ve had the baby!'”
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So the couple and Furtado, with the help of a 911 dispatcher, helped welcome her into the world with a surprise at home delivery that lasted under one minute start to finish, with no supplies and no warning.
“It seems more normal now that it’s happened to us, but before that I would’ve considered it absurd,” said Reimer.
The kicker to this couple’s amazing story? They live within walking distance of the hospital, just three blocks away. But they say when nature starts to take its course, there’s nothing you can do to stop it.
Now that baby Sophia and Fries are safely at home, it seems only right to find out why they were so late to make it to the hospital.
“OK, well if anything, it was me,” admitted Reimer.
The couple says while the delivery was so successful, they don’t plan on giving birth at home again.
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