Friday, June 17, 2011

311's Nick Hexum Delivers Baby at Home (Pop Eater)

Talk about things not going as planned. Nick Hexum, frontman of the band 311, found himself delivering his second child without a midwife when his wife suddenly went into labor last month.

According to PEOPLE, Hexum and his wife, Nikki, planned on having a home birth for their second daughter, Maxine, but Nikki went into labor before the midwife arrived.

Hexum had to be quick on his feet, not only for the delivery, but to deal with some scary complications as well when the baby got lodged in the birth canal.

"After Max's head popped out, the delivery stalled for the next couple of contractions. The baby's head was blue and the umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck," Hexum said of the terrifying delivery. "I was worried the cord was choking her, keeping blood from getting to her brain."

But luckily, the singer paid close attention when the couple's first daughter, Echo, 21 months, was born.

"I knew from observing and listening the first time around that sometimes the baby's shoulder would get caught and they would have to reach in there and break its collar bone to free her," he said, adding that he "felt the shoulders and rotated the baby back and forth."

That seemed to do the trick, and baby Maxine was born on May 1.

"I jiggled her around until I heard a 'wahhh!' It was an amazing moment," Hexum said of the birth, and adding that the midwife arrived minutes later.

"Everything was fine!" the singer said of the whole thing. "We never went to the hospital. We just sat in bed laughing and crying tears of joy about what a crazy experience it was."

Hexum's new album with 311, 'Universal Pulse,' drops July 19.

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