Think your baby’s birth story is good? 311′s Nick Hexum has a whopper of a tale to tell after delivering his own daughter.
The plan was for Nick Hexum’s wife Nikki to deliver their second child at home with the help of a midwife, but sudden labor threw that plan out the window. All was under control until the baby, a girl the couple named Maxine, got stuck in the birth canal.
Nick Hexum, who shared the amazing story with People, says, “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. I was worried the cord was choking her, keeping blood from getting to her brain.”
Thinking back to the birth of their first daughter Echo (seen here holding baby sister Maxine), Nick made a plan.
“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 says. “I reached my fingers in there and felt the shoulders and rotated the baby back and forth.”
With the next contraction Nick says the baby “slid out smoothly.” With Maxine in his arms Nick recalls, “I jiggled her around until I heard a ‘wahhh!’ It was an amazing moment.”
The mid-wife showed up ten minutes later to cut the cord. “Everything was fine!” says Nick. “We never went to the hospital. We just sat in bed laughing and crying tears of joy about what a crazy experience it was.”
Do you think your man could handle delivering his own child as 311′s Nick Hexum did?
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