Not Far Enough Along”… Then Baby Arrived in 8 Minutes

Mercedes Wells was told she wasn’t in active labor and sent home—despite intense contractions and visible pain. Minutes later, on a roadside in Chicago, her body said now.

With no doctors, no nurses—just panic and love—her husband delivered their baby with his own hands, catching the newborn in a blanket and placing them on Mercedes’ chest.

Both are safe, but the questions remain. Every mother deserves to be heard.