Incredibly brave mom who delivered her own 10-pound baby in THAT car birth video introduces the world to little Josiah
- A video posted on Thursday shows a woman deliver her own baby in the passenger seat of a car on the way to a Houston birthing center
- A man, believed to be her husband and father of the child, filmed the birth as he drove
- The 10lb baby boy is the couple's third child, following two daughters, aged two and one
A Texas woman who gave birth to a 10 pound baby in the front seat of a car last week while her husband recorded the whole thing is speaking out.
Lesia Pettijohn of Lake Jackson told her husband to record her giving birth once she realized the baby would arrive before they could make it to a Houston birthing center.
'I was probably freaking out way more than I should have. But I really didn't want to have him in the car. I was scared. I didn't know if he'd be breathing OK or if he would need anything else,' Lesia told KTRK.
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Speaking out: Texas woman Lesia Pettijohn gave birth to a 10 pound baby in the front seat of a car last week while her husband, John, recorded the whole thing
But the mother of three must have been playing modest because the Go-Pro footage that's gone viral since last Thursday shows a calm, collected woman keeping it together in a crazy situation.
Lesia explained that she delivered that baby herself because her husband, John, kept driving down the highway towards the Bay Area Birth Center at her insistence. She said she was afraid they may need help at some point and neither had a cell phone.
Thankfully, everything turned out fine.
'When he was out I was like I gotta push the rest of him out and grab him and pick him up and I was like what do I do, what do I wrap him in? My shirt is pretty long I will wrap him up in that,' said Lesia.
And now little Josiah, at just days old, is a star.
Worried: Lesia explained that she delivered that baby herself because her husband, John, kept driving down the highway towards the Bay Area Birth Center at her insistence. She said she was afraid they may need help at some point and neither had a cell phone
'He's gonna be famous before he even knows his own name. It's in Norway. It's amazing. I can't believe so many people want to see something like that,' said proud pop John
'He's gonna be famous before he even knows his own name. It's in Norway. It's amazing. I can't believe so many people want to see something like that,' said proud pop John.
The video, which was posted on YouTube on Thursday, opens with the caption, 'We've been driving for 45 mins. Already'.
After screaming several times, the unidentified woman realizes that the baby's head is coming out, so she takes down her pants enough to pull the baby out. The man then gives the woman a high five, saying 'We did it'.
'He came out right in the car! Oh my god. You're beautiful! Oh my goodness! What do I do?' she responds.
This is the couple's third child. Their first two children, both daughters, now aged two and one, were birthed at the Bay Area Birth Center.
The video opens with a man filming what appears to be his pregnant wife during a long drive to the Bay Area Birth Center in Houston
The woman lets out several screams before realizing that the baby's head is coming out as she sits in the passenger seat
The woman takes her pants down and delivers the baby on her own as her husband pulls to a stop on the side of the road
In the video posted on Thursday, she announces that it's a boy and gives her husband a high five after he says 'We did it!'
The woman pats the baby on his backside several times to make sure he is breathing properly as her husband restarts the car and heads for the birth center
This is the couple's third child. They have two daughters, aged two and one, who were both delivered at the Bay Area Birth Center
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