Principal and Teacher Help Co-Worker Give Birth in School Bathroom: 'It All Happened Very Fast'
Paige Lockstedt, a paraprofessional, welcomed her baby girl inside a Texas elementary school bathroom on Wednesday, Aug. 28
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Principal Amy Simmons and Cunningham Elementary's makeshift delivery roomA Texas elementary school bathroom recently became a makeshift delivery room when a staff member suddenly went into labor during the school day.
Paige Lockstedt, a paraprofessional, was not feeling well while working at Cunningham Elementary School in Wichita Falls, Texas, on Wednesday, Aug. 28, Principal Amy Simmons said in a video shared by the school district.
Simmons was about to tell the staffer to go home early when she received a call from Lockstedt, who told her, “My water just broke.”
Quickly, L.I.F.E. teacher Ashley Strain got the attention of school nurses, who helped Lockstedt get in a wheelchair.
Lockstedt had just reached the front door as nurses were on the phone with 911 when she realized the baby was coming fast. So, she rushed to the nearest bathroom with Simmons and Strain in tow.
“That’s when I caught a baby in my hands,” Strain recalled in the video shared by the Wichita Falls Independent School District.
Simmons said the baby girl was born “maybe five or six minutes after we got the call that her water broke,” according to NBC affiliate KFDX-TV, adding, “It all happened very fast."
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“For a minute, everyone just stood in the entry way and we were all just looking at each other like, ‘This really just happened,’ ” Simmons explained, recalling the moment when the baby girl was born.
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After the birth, things at Cunningham Elementary quickly went back to normal. Strain taught her classes that day, and Simmons held a staff meeting that afternoon, where the special delivery was discussed.
Meanwhile, Lockstedt and her baby girl are doing well after the birth, Simmons said in the district's video. The baby weighed 2 lbs., 5 oz., at birth, and will remain in the hospital “for a few more weeks” to ensure "everything is still okay," per the principal.
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