A Dallas elementary school nurse and teacher help deliver a parent’s baby when she goes into labor at the school. In December, Loren Carcamo went to Kleberg Elementary in Dallas to pick up her six-year-old daughter, Lorette, who was running a fever. Loren was pregnant, scheduled to be induced the next day, and feeling some pain when she arrived at the school. By the time she reached the school’s lobby, her water broke.
School nurse Tylar Krause had Loren lay down in the clinic and knowing that dealing with a pregnant woman was a little out of her wheelhouse, she called in teacher Maria Perez Caraballo. The bi-lingual fifth-grade teacher was a doctor in Venezuela and had delivered hundreds of babies before immigrating to the US. “There was a general vibe of freak-out until Ms. Perez walked in,” recalls nurse Tylar. “She was so calm, collected. She was like, ‘Let’s do this.’”
Maria examined the mother and was happy to see that the baby was coming head-first, but realized right away that there wouldn’t be time to get Loren to the hospital. “The baby is going to be born here,” she announced. The teacher and nurse prepared Loren to deliver her baby just as paramedics arrived to assist and baby Leire Madeleine was born minutes later. School staff cheered and congratulated the new mom as paramedics wheeled her through campus heading to the hospital. On the way out, they passed Lorette, who was shocked and a bit confused. The kindergartener later told her mom that she thought babies came from the hospital, not from school.
Source: Dallas News