{"id":316189,"date":"2026-05-31T04:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316189\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T04:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T04:31:51","slug":"texas-mom-gives-birth-to-twins-during-memorial-day-road-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/316189\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas mom gives birth to twins during Memorial Day road trip"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Texas mother unexpectedly gave birth<\/a> to twin boys on the side of Highway 377 near Lake Texoma, Oklahoma, during a Memorial Day weekend trip after going into labor nearly two months early.<\/p>\n

Shelbee Dugger-Kemp, who was 31 weeks pregnant with twins<\/a>, told ABC News affiliate KOCO 5<\/a> that she initially believed she was experiencing cramps before realizing she was in labor.<\/p>\n

Dugger-Kemp recalled warning her grandmother as the family drove toward the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told her, \u2018Mimi, we\u2019re about to have babies in the car,\u2019 and she was like, \u2018Oh no, we\u2019re not,\u2019\u201d Dugger-Kemp recalled.<\/p>\n

Dugger-Kemp said the situation escalated quickly as the family rushed toward the hospital.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A Texas mom delivered twins on a highway in Oklahoma, on May 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

Shelbee Dugger-Kemp<\/p>\n

\u201cMy reaction was just, \u2018Oh my gosh. What do I do?\u2019 because I kind of just froze,\u201d she said. \u201cI still had clothes on, so I had to literally get him out of my pants.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just six miles down the road, Dugger-Kemp delivered the first twin, Kane, inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just threw him on my chest and started cleaning him off really good and trying to clean his nose, his mouth, and wanted to keep him warm, so I wrapped him up in a hoodie,\u201d she told the station.<\/p>\n

With Kane in her arms, Dugger-Kemp then focused on delivering his twin brother, Kallen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe time between Kane and Kallen coming out, that was all that was going through my head,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Five minutes later, Kallen was born while still inside his amniotic sac.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe actually came out in his sack still, so that was crazy,\u201d Dugger-Kemp said.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post<\/a> shared May 24, Dugger-Kemp described how the day unfolded before the emergency delivery.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday I woke up a little crampy, cooked breakfast & we went and had lunch at pelicans landing,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI thought the nachos food poisoned me because the cramps were getting worse and I was having tummy issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the pain intensified rapidly.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithin 15 minutes my pain was unbearable and I knew I needed to get to the hospital so we jumped in the car and headed for one!\u201d Dugger-Kemp wrote.<\/p>\n

In the same post, she described the moments after Kane was born.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

A Texas mom delivered twins on a highway in Oklahoma, on May 24, 2026.<\/p>\n

Shelbee Dugger-Kemp<\/p>\n

\u201cHe opened his eyes really big at me and just wrapped his little arm around my stomach,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Dugger-Kemp also shared that she had to open Kallen\u2019s amniotic sac herself while waiting for emergency responders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t know what to do. I was terrified,\u201d she wrote. \u201cSo I opened the sack and did the same thing with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

An ambulance later transported the family to Mercy Hospital in Ardmore, Oklahoma, before the twins were transferred to Oklahoma Children\u2019s Hospital for specialized neonatal care, KOCO reported.<\/p>\n

According to Dugger-Kemp, Kane is breathing on his own while Kallen initially needed some oxygen support. Both babies are maintaining their blood sugar levels and body temperature.<\/p>\n

\u201cOverall they are great,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

The twins were born nearly two months before Dugger-Kemp\u2019s original due date of July 24.<\/p>\n

The family is now waiting to transfer the babies back to Texas while also navigating temporary housing challenges near the hospital.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get here, and there\u2019s no hotels available because of the championship and softball,\u201d Dugger-Kemp told KOCO 5. \u201cWe\u2019re on the waitlist for Ronald McDonald.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dugger-Kemp also shared on Facebook that doctors had warned her throughout the pregnancy that “baby b” faced significant risks because of an issue involving his umbilical cord.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was terrified because they\u2019ve told me this entire time baby b had a huge chance of not making it unless I did a c section due to his umbilical cord,\u201d she wrote. \u201cBut I am okay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Texas mother unexpectedly gave birth to twin boys on the side of Highway 377 near Lake Texoma,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10548,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-316189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-parenting","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316189","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=316189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}