As much as growing a child in your body is a full-on miracle, it doesn’t mean that the world around you stops as you do so. Errands still have to be run, and bills still have to be paid. Work has to get done. And everything is amplified if you're pregnant and already have other children.
One pregnant mother was going about life as usual, picking up her daughters from school, when she discovered that the miraculous gestation period was over and the baby was on her way. Thankfully, a teacher at Kleberg Elementary School in Dallas knew just what to do.
Loren Carcamo was picking up her daughter from school when she went into labor.
Loren Carcamo was waiting in the school’s front office to pick up one of her two daughters. The school-aged girl had gotten sick, Today reported. Carcamo was there to take her home but as it turned out, they wouldn’t be going anywhere any time soon.
As Carcamo stood in the front office, her water broke, according to NBC DFW. The school nurse, Tylar Krause, sprang into action.
“I yelled out to the front office — 'please get me someone in here who's at least had a baby in their life' because I needed an extra set of hands," Krause recounted.
Krause panicked but relaxed when she saw Maria Perez coming.
Internally, Krause was panicking. But when fifth-grade bilingual teacher Maria Perez showed up as the extra set of hands, Krause immediately felt at ease. In Venezuela, Perez had worked as a doctor in obstetrics and gynecology.
Two years ago, she moved to Dallas and started working as a teacher. In the nurse’s office where Carcamo had been transferred, Perez performed an exam and determined there was not enough time to get Carcamo to the hospital. They would have to deliver the baby there.
Perez reassured Carcamo, telling her she had lots of experience when it came to this situation.
“I said, ‘Don’t worry,’ Perez recounted, "‘I was a medical doctor in my country and I delivered a lot of babies,'” Today reported.
Her words must have provided some comfort. Carcamo pushed through her contractions and her third daughter was delivered at school.
“I feel like I was with a real friend, with my doctor,” Carcamo told Today. “So, when she started talking to me, the scary part just went away,” she said.
“Mrs. Perez was holding my hand, helping with everything,” Carcamo told NBC DFW. “It was so easy."
Carcamo labored for just 10 minutes before welcoming her daughter to the world.
She named her daughter Leire Madeleine. “I was smiling. I was happy. I couldn’t believe it. I just couldn’t believe it,” Carcamo told Today of the delivery.
Perez said the whole thing was beautiful. ““Everybody should experience that. It’s beautiful,” Perez said of the birth, according to Today. “When the baby comes and starts crying, you just feel that amazing energy.”
Krause understands just how fortunate they all were to have things unfold the way they did. “What are the odds of having a baby at a school in the first place? But having a doctor there that’s done it? We’re lucky. Blessed, I would say,” she told the news outlet.
