TALLMADGE, Ohio — “So I’m sitting there and my water breaks, so I’m like, ‘I’m going to wake him up.’ Then I thought, I had time to get a shower so I jumped in the shower.”
It was just after 1 a.m. Monday morning when Ashley and her husband Jeremy knew they had to leave for the hospital.
They called her parents to watch their 6-year-old son but the next call was 9-1-1.
“She was in the bathroom and I was brushing my teeth. Next thing I knew she’s lying on the floor saying the baby’s coming,” Jeremy said.
Ashley’s contractions had gotten worse and the baby was on its way.
Jeremy called 9-1-1 and they were on the phone.
Jeremy listened carefully to the dispatcher until help arrived — not paramedics but his father-in-law, who lives just a few houses away.
“Coming to get my grandson and, as soon as I crossed the street, my son-in-law is yelling, ‘come on, come on, the baby is coming. I’ve got 911 on the phone,’ Jeremy’s father-in-law David said.
They worked together.
The dispatcher was calm, never panicked, they said.
In less than five minutes, McKenna Smith was born right there on the kitchen floor.