\u201cWhile he was getting the car ready, I was going to get in the bath\u2026 but that didn\u2019t work out,” the new mother said.<\/p>\n
PLANO, Texas \u2014 As icy conditions gripped North Texas on Saturday morning, first responders in Plano were called to all kinds of emergencies \u2014 car crashes, broken water pipes, and one unexpected call they won\u2019t forget.<\/p>\n
\u201cCar crashes, broken water pipes, not expecting a pregnancy emergency,\u201d Plano Fire Rescue Spokeswoman Allison Smith said.<\/p>\n
For Plano Fire-Rescue, that emergency turned out to be a baby delivery on one of the coldest mornings of the year.<\/p>\n
“I do think weather plays a role in it for sure,” said Medical City Plano Labor and Delivery Nurse Tracey Wilberger.<\/p>\n
Taylor and Stoney were eagerly awaiting the birth of their daughter, Amelia, who wasn\u2019t due until next week. But as the ice storm settled in, their plans changed fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were expecting\u2026but not in this condition,\u201d Stoney said with a laugh.<\/p>\n
Contractions started at about 4:30 a.m. they told WFAA.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to peek outside. ‘Oh God! There\u2019s ice outside,’\u201d Stoney recalled saying.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was cussing a storm. I wasn\u2019t saying anything to myself besides ‘I need to get this baby out of me!’\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n
Their car was frozen shut, and the contractions were coming quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile he was getting the car ready, I was going to get in the bath\u2026 but that didn\u2019t work out,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when Plano Fire-Rescue stepped in. Paramedics arrived and helped the couple reach Medical City Plano \u2014 but they didn\u2019t quite make it inside.<\/p>\n
At 7:30 a.m., inside an ambulance on an icy roadway, a team of firefighter-paramedics delivered baby Amelia. That team included Kyle Krawietz, Garrett Murray and Chris Zuniga.<\/p>\n
Krawietz, a 10-year veteran, was the one who caught the baby.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were going to incorporate Kylie, instead of Kyle, into her name,\u201d Taylor said, smiling.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cA little nod to Kyle, that\u2019s good!\u201d Smith added.<\/p>\n
This is Taylor\u2019s third girl, and easily the one with the most dramatic entry.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone\u2019s been amazing, we\u2019re lucky to be here,\u201d Taylor said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As the ice storm continues outside, the new parents held their newborn \u2014 a bundle of joy who arrived already bundled up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see a very beautiful ice angel,\u201d Stoney said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhile he was getting the car ready, I was going to get in the bath\u2026 but that didn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,162,161],"class_list":["post-137283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}