OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – One Omaha family will have more than hearts and flowers to celebrate on Valentine’s Day.
Domingo Cruz and his wife, Elia Velasco, will now celebrate the birth of their son, who was delivered outside a south Omaha gas station.
Cruz said that he was in route to the hospital with his laboring wife Tuesday when she yelled that she wasn’t going to make it. Her baby wasn’t due for another two weeks, so her early labor caught them by surprise.
Cruz says he pulled into the gas station and called 911.
Omaha firefighters arrived in minutes and helped deliver the healthy 6-pound, 5- ounce baby in his parents’ car outside the station.