Dad helps deliver baby on the side of the road

FORT MYERS, Fla. – A baby was born on the side of the road near Six Mile Cypress Parkway early Friday morning.

“I mean, who needs coffee when you got something like that to wake you up,” the baby’s father, Omar Alvarez said.

Little baby Brielle just couldn’t wait any longer to make her grand entrance to the world. Her mom, Staci, woke up to contractions. She then took a shower and headed to the hospital with her husband. However, the clock was ticking and Brielle was coming much faster than they’d ever expect.

“She starts screaming, ‘I have to push, the baby is coming!'” Omar recalls. “And I tell her, ‘no the baby can’t come,’ and she’s like, ‘no, the baby’s coming! So I felt over there and there’s the baby’s head, I turn on the light and sure enough the baby is half out.”

Omar, who watched his two other daughters be born, pulled over at a business while 911 dispatchers and his father-in-law walked him through the birth.

“She came out blue in the face and the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck probably a good three to four times.”

Luckily, the South Trail Fire Station, where his father-in-law is a lieutenant, was just down the street. Omar rang the doorbell until help arrived.

“She finally cries and literally that’s when I was relieved because we really hadn’t heard anything from her that entire time.”

“We could probably even call Guinness World Book of Records and see if that’s a record, who knows!”

Brielle’s older sister is already planning her first birthday party, she hopes to have it the fire station.