311 frontman Nick Hexum isn't a doctor, but he played one at his home recently when his wife Nikki went into labor with their new baby daughter Maxine. The couple had arranged for a midwife but Hexum was forced to deliver the baby on his own when the baby came quicker than expected.
While speaking with People magazine, Hexum explained that there were some tense moments in the delivery, but everything worked out for the best:
"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 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."
Moments later he says he "heard a 'wahhh!' It was an amazing moment." The midwife arrived at their home ten minutes later and cut the umbilical cord. Both mother and daughter are happy and healthy.
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