This is a sweet story coming to us from Wichita Falls, Texas.
A schoolteacher and the principal had to spring into action after a paraprofessional working at their school suddenly and unexpectedly went into labor.
L.I.F.E teacher Ashley Strain was trying to urge paraprofessional Paige Lockstedt to go home after she said she hadn't been feeling well when Lockstedt called her from the bathroom.
'Paige said she wasn't feeling well, so I was trying to tell her to go home, and she started to walk to find [Principal] Simmons, and I was like, "No, I'll find Simmons. You go home,'' Strain said. 'She said, "Well, I'm going to go to the bathroom," and she called me and said, "My water just broke.'''
Once Lockstedt announced that her water had broken, the race against time was on. Strain and Principal Amy Simmons put Lockstedt in a wheelchair and took her to the school's main entrance to wait for medical personnel to arrive.
They called 911 but before any emergency pros could arrive, the baby started to come.
Once it was clear that the baby was coming and there was no more waiting for the ambulance, the duo rushed to the bathroom with the mom-to-be and got to work.
According to one of the teachers, the whole episode from water breaking to baby born was only about 5 or 6 minutes.
The baby was born, the ambulance arrived, and mom and child are happy and healthy.
Here's the local Wichita Falls news report.
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