Mom Ends Up Giving Birth On The Highway, In The Front Seat Of Her Car
The George Washington Bridge spans from New York City to Fort Lee, New Jersey. Many people make the drive across the bridge to commute to and from work every day, and it’s a common occurrence to get stuck in traffic somewhere along the way.
For one pregnant New Jersey mom making the drive into Manhattan this past January, getting stuck in traffic wasn’t the problem, but being stuck in her car delivering her baby was!
Allison Goldfarb and her family had just moved to New Jersey, she wanted to make sure she was able to still go to Mt. Sinai, which is located in Manhattan, to deliver her second child.
On January 19th, Allison started having contractions and her doctor instructed her to make her way to the hospital. So, she and her husband Blake started driving their car over there.
“As we were driving, my contractions were increasing and my water broke, I even started to feel the head so I told my husband to call 911,” she said in a post from the FDNY that was shared on Instagram.
Pictured above is a photo of Allison and her family, as shared by the FDNY
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“The FDNY Dispatcher was very calm and reassuring,” Allison continued. “She told us to pull the car over because it was time to deliver this baby.”
“We pulled over just off the George Washington Bridge. The whole experience was very frightening, but I remember seeing flashing lights and hearing sirens and that’s when I knew that EMS was coming to find us. It was comforting to know that they were coming to help us.”
Allison ended up delivering her second-born right there in the front seat of the car!
She and her husband decided to name their newborn son after Allison’s brother Josh, who sadly passed away from Leukemia when he was only 3-years-old. “We named him Jordan Harris Goldfarb, after my brother Joshua Harrison,” Allison explained.
If you think this is a pretty shocking birth story, one of the EMTs for the FDNY noted these kinds of calls come in pretty frequently!
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