PITTSBURGH – A Pittsburgh woman gave birth to her premature son in a vehicle on the way to the hospital – with the baby still in its amniotic sac.
Raelin Scurry posted an Instagram photo of the newborn taken on the way to Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC on Aug. 5.
Scurry tells KDKA-TV she had the boy’s father, Ean Vanstory, drive her to the hospital while she dialed 911. The boy, called E.J., is named for his father.
She says she started having contractions on Aug. 5.
“I was only 29 weeks and 4 days so I just figured they were Braxton hicks and decided to wait it out,” she wrote in the Instagram post. “After about 45 minutes of consistent contractions that were increasing in intensity I decided I should probably go in. ”
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When the contractions started being so close together, she said she knew it was “time to push,” and that’s when E.J. was born, still in the amniotic sac.
Scurry works in medical research and knew the baby would be safe in the sac. When the baby didn’t move at first, she poked at his face – careful not to break the sac – and was relieved when E.J. raised his hands and feet toward his head.
He was born at 29 weeks’ gestation, and is doing well.