When labor comes too fast

Check this story out-- it is about Jodi, a labor and delivery nurse here at UCD who had a "BOA" (generally, a "birth on arrival" or before!) in her car before making it to the hospital on Friday! Too funny! Less paperwork when this happens :) Congrats, Jodi!

There's a cute video you can watch at the right after clicking on the link.

Labor Nurse Helps with Emergency Delivery: Her Own!
The text, from News10 online (George Warren):

"SACRAMENTO, CA - A UC Davis Medical Center labor and delivery nurse is resting with her new baby daughter after giving birth by the side of a freeway.Jodi Fankhanel, 38, went into labor early Friday morning at her home in Rancho Cordova and got a ride to the hospital where she works and planned to deliver her baby.But things didn't quite work out as expected."I knew we weren't going to make it," Fankhanel told News10 from her bed in the maternity ward at the hospital.Fankhanel's husband Paul, who is also a UCD nurse, was at work. So she awakened her sister-in-law who is visiting from Minnesota.Jennifer Sweet said the baby was already crowning before they got halfway to the hospital. Sweet, who doesn't know her way around Sacramento, pulled over when she saw a California Highway Patrol unit helping a stranded motorist by the side of Highway 50 just east of Watt Avenue.CHP officer Charmaine Fajardo called for an ambulance, but there was no time.Fankhanel talked Fajardo through the delivery process and the baby girl was born in the back of the Honda Odyssey just after 3 a.m.In an interview in her hospital room, Fankhanel was laughing about the event. She has three other children and eight years of delivery nurse experience. But she said all her earlier deliveries were induced and she expected to have plenty of warning for baby number 4 who, by the way, arrived two weeks early.She and her husband named their daughter Lainey Grace Fankhanel."

I love this about OB! I had an exciting near "birth on bed" and only had time to get gloves on to deliver the baby's shoulders yesterday-- which I was regretting a bit after getting totally splattered with amniotic fluid and blood! Eeww! :)