311 frontman Nick Hexum recently avoided a 911, as he was forced to deliver his daughter, Maxine, without any medical supervision.
In spite of having planned for a midwife to deliver their second child, the alternative rocker was pushed to step up to the role when wife Nikki abruptly went into labor.
At one point, things got scary, when the baby girl became stuck 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,” he told People.
Thankfully, Hexum, 41, was sharp enough to draw on the memory of the couple’s older daughter Echo’s birth 21 months earlier, and he quickly started to wheedle the newborn out.
“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. “I reached my fingers in there and felt the shoulders and rotated the baby back and forth.”
He jiggled her around and finally “heard a ‘wahhh!’ It was an amazing moment,” he said.
Ten minutes later, the midwife finally reached the house to cut Maxine's cord. Mom and baby are doing just fine.
311 will release their 10th studio album, “Universal Pulse,” on July 19 and tour with Sublime this summer.
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