The News Tribune
Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:18 EDT
Puyallup, Washington - A 911 dispatcher gave birth on Friday, Sept. 11, at 9:11 p.m.
TaMara Sheppard of Tacoma started labor around noon and arrived at Puyallup's Good Samaritan Hospital at 7:30 p.m. before delivering baby Nina Morgan.
Sheppard had been scheduled for induced labor on Monday, but Nina Morgan decided to make an early grand entrance.
"The last time I looked at the clock (in the delivery room), the little hand was on nine and the big one was on eleven," Sheppard said. Then the doctor told her to push.
Recovering in the hospital on Saturday, Sheppard took the prodigious timing in stride. "It never even crossed my mind until my husband said, 'you're a 911 dispatcher, you had a baby on 9/11 at 9:11.'"
She cheekily added: "We were hoping she was 9 pounds, 11 ounces, on top of that."
Mon Sep 21, 2009 5:08 pm
