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YAMHILL COUNTY, OR -- Caught in a snow storm in Oregon, a Flagstaff couple gave birth to their first daughter Tuesday in the front seat of their truck.
"It was a little, a little scary," said Sarah Koppen. "But she was perfect."
Sarah and her husband Jason were visiting Oregon's Yamhill County, where nasty weather stranded the couple on a highway as they were driving to a nearby birthing center.
"Oh, I think she'll enjoy hearing her birth story," Sarah said. "This crazy snow storm, running to the midwife's, being born in the car."
The couple ended up only a few miles away from the center.
But because of the weather, Jason said he couldn't drive any faster than 40 miles per hour.
And a scream from his wife let him know he was running out of time.
"After a contraction, she said the baby's head is out and I was like no way," Jason said. "So I reached over and literally I could feel the head, and I'm thinking, we're two miles away I can get there. I don't want to have to deliver this baby."
But Jason and Sarah did deliver their new daughter, Angela, right in the front of his truck as it sat parked in the middle of the highway.
"We cut the umbilical cord right there on the seat," Jason said.
According to the Koppens, baby Angela is doing very well.
Flagstaff couple stranded during storm gives birth in truck - Phoenix Arizona news, breaking news, local news, weather radar, traffic from ABC15 News | ABC15.com
"It was a little, a little scary," said Sarah Koppen. "But she was perfect."
Sarah and her husband Jason were visiting Oregon's Yamhill County, where nasty weather stranded the couple on a highway as they were driving to a nearby birthing center.
"Oh, I think she'll enjoy hearing her birth story," Sarah said. "This crazy snow storm, running to the midwife's, being born in the car."
The couple ended up only a few miles away from the center.
But because of the weather, Jason said he couldn't drive any faster than 40 miles per hour.
And a scream from his wife let him know he was running out of time.
"After a contraction, she said the baby's head is out and I was like no way," Jason said. "So I reached over and literally I could feel the head, and I'm thinking, we're two miles away I can get there. I don't want to have to deliver this baby."
But Jason and Sarah did deliver their new daughter, Angela, right in the front of his truck as it sat parked in the middle of the highway.
"We cut the umbilical cord right there on the seat," Jason said.
According to the Koppens, baby Angela is doing very well.
Flagstaff couple stranded during storm gives birth in truck - Phoenix Arizona news, breaking news, local news, weather radar, traffic from ABC15 News | ABC15.com
