Twins Born on the Side of Highway 280

HARPERSVILLE, Ala—Nine months pregnant, contractions two minutes apart and a thirty-mile drive to the hospital are the perfect ingredients for a roadside birth. That’s what happened to a Harpersville mother of twins.

“Her contractions got shorter and shorter. She felt the urge like she was pushing,“ said Kyle Roy, a Harpersville EMT.

After fighting rush hour traffic from Harpersville down Highway 280 at 7 o’clock Wednesday morning, three bold firefighters saw nothing but brake lights. When mom began crowning, the medics had to think fast. They pulled over and EMT Kyle Roy earned his stripes as a medic after being on the job one week.
“The first baby came up and she was awesome, good color, she was crying good and then there is always the thought in the back of my mind you still got one more,“ Roy said.

Baby number two was breeched, but was born seven minutes later without an epidural.

“She had no pain meds—we don’t carry any drugs we can give her, it was just natural birth and she was screaming!“ Ryan Carter said.

“We ended up delivering both of them right there directly next to the Summit right there on Highway 280,“  Roy said.

It is fitting the twins were born next to a mall. They are both girls! This is one fashionable reporter who can see shopping in at least one of these ladies future.