Baby born in truck during blizzard in New Mexico
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A young father delivered his daughter on the front seat of a truck that was speeding down the icy highway between Cañoncito and Santa Fe in a snowstorm early Tuesday morning.
The 19-inch-long, 6-pound, 11-ounce baby girl named Joanna Mallory LeFevre and her parents, Russell and Elizabeth LeFevre, were all in good condition Tuesday at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center. They are scheduled to go home to Cañoncito on Wednesday.
Elizabeth LeFevre said Tuesday was her due date, and she started having contractions around midnight. By 2 a.m. her pains had intensified, she said, so she and her husband and 3-year-old daughter Renee LeFevre loaded into a truck driven by Russell’s brother, Neil LeFevre, and headed for the hospital.
“It was blizzarding outside,” Russell LeFevre said. “They had shut down I-25 between Eldorado and Las Vegas.”
“We got like two miles down the highway, and I told him there was probably no chance we were going to make it to the hospital,” Elizabeth LeFevre said. “As soon as I said that my water broke.”
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Russell LeFevre is employed as a nurse’s assistant at Christus St. Vincent and had just graduated from nursing school Dec. 8. So he had some training.
“They teach you how to birth a baby, but you’ve got a suction bulb and blankets and clamps and everything you need [during the lesson],” he said.
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At least they weren’t texting….