{"id":470865,"date":"2026-09-21T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470865\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T14:25:42","slug":"so-surreal-woman-gives-birth-while-stuck-in-heavy-san-francisco-traffic-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/470865\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018So surreal\u2019: woman gives birth while stuck in heavy San Francisco traffic | San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"

A woman stuck in heavy traffic in San Francisco<\/a> went into labor and gave birth to a healthy baby girl, local authorities have said.<\/p>\n

The San Francisco<\/a> fire department said in a statement that a couple had been snarled up in heavy congestion near the city\u2019s Golden Gate park when they were forced to pull over due to the imminent birth.<\/p>\n

The couple \u2013 whom authorities have only named as Karollyn and Nate \u2013 had called emergency services. But those first responders also became stuck in traffic and had to eventually proceed to the couple by foot.<\/p>\n

However, by then, a passing doula, Katie Higgins, had stopped to assist Karollyn and Nate with the birth.<\/p>\n

Though unconventional, and far from ideal, the delivery of a baby girl went successfully.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth mother and child were transported to a local hospital in good condition,\u201d the San Francisco fire department\u2019s statement<\/a> said. \u201cWe want to congratulate the family and welcome this new child to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The San Francisco Standard news outlet quoted<\/a> Higgins as describing the experience as \u201cso surreal\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were so fortunate to have the support that we did, especially some medical professionals that were sitting in the same traffic,\u201d the family said in a statement <\/a>shared through ambulance company American Medical Response and quoted by the Standard. \u201cMost notably, a doula that helped coach Karollyn through the process until the paramedics arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman stuck in heavy traffic in San Francisco went into labor and gave birth to a healthy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-470865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}