Woman has her baby at Sesame Place!

You know what’s a lot of fun? Telling your kids the story of how they were born. I especially look forward to telling my youngest how I was very sure she was going to be born on the side of the highway since I was already starting to push a bit as my husband was barreling along, trying to get to the hospital in time.

But my own children’s birth stories won’t be as interesting as this woman who can tell her kids that her third child was born in the bathroom stall at Sesame Place!

She had been there with her two older children for about 20 minutes when she went to the washroom. While she was in there, her water broke and the baby was born almost immediately, with the umbilical cord breaking off on its own. The shocked mother said she never had any pain – so she had no idea, I guess, that she was about to give birth!

The baby was 5 lbs 11 oz and both mom and baby – who are now at the hospital – are doing fine. They’d due home on Monday but Elmo will head to the hospital to visit them!

Also, since the two older siblings only got 20 minutes of time to visit Sesame Place, the family has been given family passes for the rest of 2008 and 2009 as a special gift.

Cute story, but MAN I’m glad that wasn’t me. Although I was later able to joke that I could have been the evening news top story as the “woman who gave birth on the highway” it wouldn’t have been too funny at the time!

I also have a cousin who couldn’t hold on long enough and ended up giving birth in the back of her car as her husband drove into the hospital parking lot, laying on the horn. While it made a great story she said it was scary at the time!

Do you have a crazy birth story for your kids or know someone who does?