The couple joins a growing list of parents — includingthe wife of Midland’s Jess Carson who welcomed their son in a parking lot— who first met their babies in the most random, unexpected (read: not in a hospital or at home) places.
Here, we break down those straight-out-of-a-movie moments.
At Six Flags
In honor of his birthday, the park gifted Crusita and Mathew with Diamond Elite Memberships, which guarantees them free entry to any Six Flags park for the rest of their lives.
A Chick-Fil-A bathroom
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After Robert Griffin’s wife Falon began having contractions in July 2018, the couple made a pit stop on their way to San Antonio, Texas’ University Hospital to meet up with a family friend at a local Chick-Fil-A store so they could drop off their two older daughters,KSAT ABC 12 reported. The mom-to-be decided to go to the bathroom before heading to the hospital, and she did — before the manager alerted Robert that his wife was screaming in the stall.
“I couldn’t control it,” his wife added. “I was basically [straddling] the toilet — I wasn’t even sitting down. I was literally standing giving birth, with one hand on the wall and one hand holding her head.”
A Turkish hotel bathroom
In a series of unbelievably epic tweets, Tia Freeman shared her unique birthing story, which started when she first realized she was pregnant during an overnight layover in Istanbul, Turkey. She was in the country for 17 hours before making it to her second flight to Germany. Not knowing she was in her third trimester until she was off the plane and at the airport, Freeman tried keeping her cool until she made it to her Turkish hotel. “I make it to my hotel & now I’m sure I’m in labor,” she tweeted. “There is no way in the world I’m not in labor because I can barely standup at this point. So I’m in a foreign country, where no one speaks english, I don’t know this country’s emergency number, & I have no clue what to do.”
“No I do not go to the hospital I take my ass to bed,” read one of Freeman’s tweets, adding she didn’t want to miss her morning flight since it cost her a lot of money. “So the next day I wake up for and get ready to go to the airport because I already paid for the cab the night before …”
Upon arriving at the airport with her son for her second flight, airport staff became concerned. Freeman and her newborn were taken to the hospital for a checkup that would end up deeming Freeman and Xavier perfectly healthy.
Due to the media attention surrounding Freeman and her story, Turkish Airlines treated the new mom and newborn to plenty of perks.
She wrote: “Because I gave them so much publicity Turkish Airlines paid for my hotel stay for two weeks, comped all my meals, upgrade @BBills_ & my return flights to business class and we enjoyed the lavish business lounge. The end.”
An Orlando Fire Station
In March 2018, Candace Howes and her husband Zack were en route to the hospital when the expectant mom started pushing, prompting the couple to pull over and call 911 when they were a mile away from home. They were told to go to the nearest fire station, which they did.
A Pensacola Gas Station
In a Hospital Hallway
In a Wendy’s Parking Lot
On the Side of the Road
In the Backseat of a Jeep
In a Walmart (kind of)
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In the Red Sea
In a Stream
“I am not a hippy drippy mom, but I wanted my fourth child to be born away from beeping machines and a hospital environment,”she told theNew York Post. “Let’s face it, women have been giving birth in the wild for thousands of years, but the thought of a modern women squatting in a creek and giving birth horrified many people even before I gave birth and shared the video.”
source: people.com
