These Amazing Photos Capture a Mom Giving Birth in a Hospital Hallway
Jes Hogan didn't make it to the delivery room, but her birth photographer still managed to document her sixth child's incredible birth story!
Imagine giving birth in the hospital hallway, with your husband catching the baby and a nurse running in at the last minute to make sure everything is okay. This is the amazing true birth story—caught entirely on camera!—of Jes Hogan, 31, who delivered her sixth child on the floor of the ER hallway in Manhattan, Kansas, before she made it anywhere near the delivery room.
Hogan had actually been to the hospital a few days earlier, but after four hours of “laboring in the tub, bouncing on the ball, and walking the halls,” without making much progress, she and her husband decided to return home. She spent the next three days in mild labor, hanging with her kids, watching Game of Thrones, and worrying that she’d have to be induced.
Well, the baby—soon to be named Maxwell Alexander—had other ideas, waking Hogan up at 2 a.m. with massive contractions. As she rose out of bed, her water broke, and she knew his arrival was imminent.
In the rush to get to the hospital, despite the pain she was in, Hogan managed to make two important calls—to the hospital, and to her birth photographer, Tammy Karin. (Watch Karin's amazing montage of birth photos in the video below.)
Karin made it to the hospital parking lot just as the Hogan and her husband arrived. According to Hogan’s birth story, it all happened quickly after that.
“I made it just past the second set of automatic doors, into the next hall which luckily was not carpeted like the one we had just stepped out of. Tammy yelled to them that I was going to have the baby right there on the floor…I then started to take my pants off because I could feel my body pushing the baby’s head out. I reached down and could feel his head crowning with my hand. I looked at my husband and said, ‘Travis catch him!’ Without any hesitation he did just that as I felt my body involuntarily pushing his head the rest of the way out. At that moment Tammy began snapping away!”
The intrepid photog caught every unbelievable moment, from Hogan pushing down her blue sweatpants to the baby’s head crowning right there under the fluorescent lights.
“It was my craziest birth, but also, the most perfect,” writes Hogan. “It was not at all what I had planned, but it ended without any intervention, with a healthy baby, and amazing support people by our sides. It was beautiful and I’ll forever love every memory of it.”
h/t Babble
