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[Gaborn]

MONTCALM COUNTY -- For most dispatchers, it is a once-in-a-career experience. For Angie Adams, it came only three days after training ended.

Adams was working the night shift at the Montcalm County Dispatch Center just after 2 a.m. Thursday when she answered a call from a frantic father yelled that his wife was giving birth in the family bathtub -- a delivery that apparently came as a surprise to Carri and Ryan Emmons.

Ryan's report that Carri "thinks she's having a baby" is quickly firmed up, as Carri can be heard yelling in the background "the head is out!"

"Oh my God, I'm looking at a baby," the 31-year-old father announced as Adams tried to calm him down and get an address to send medical personnel.

"I didn't know my wife was pregnant," Ryan said of his 27-year-old wife, already a mother of three.

"You didn't know she was pregnant?" Adams asked.

"No, no," Ryan answers. "(I) had no idea my wife was pregnant."

Later, Carri gets on the telephone and tells Adams the baby is fine and blowing bubbles.

"What a surprise," Adams said to Carri.

"Yeah, it was," Carri responded.

But Adams said she was not concerned about whether the baby was a surprise. She wanted to make sure mother and baby boy were OK.

Adams said her six months of training had her ready.

It showed as Adams kept the frantic husband calm and told him to make sure the baby's air passages were clear. She even talked to Angie's 10-year-old son, Tyler, who talked matter-of-factly about the event that seemed to have the adults in a tizzy.

"My mom said there's like baby poop all over his head," Tyler said.

Carri later tells Adams that she had never seen a baby right after delivery up close.

"Yeah, they're usually wiped off," Adams said.

Ryan also got to deal with the less flowery aspects of birth as he helped gathered the placenta from the bathtub so it could be examined by doctors.

"Ugh, ... disgusting," Ryan moans.

But the reward came as the new boy's cries were heard loud and strong over the phone lines.

"Well, that baby's got some good lungs," Adams said.

Adams asked the new mom how she was feeling, and Carri said: "Oh, a little bit sore. But, for the most part, pretty good."

Rescue personnel arrived at the rural home taking baby and mother away, ending the call.

The Emmonses were not taking visitors at their hospital room at Greenville's Spectrum United Memorial Hospital. But reportedly baby and mother were doing well.

Adams's boss, dispatch authority director Jeff Troyer, said he was happy to get the news out about a dispatcher doing a great job in an position that comes only once in a span of years.

"There are dispatchers with 20 years experience who never do a delivery," Troyer said.

Adams, 36, a former construction manager and mother of two teenagers, said she felt "blessed" to play a role in the birth.

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The audio of the 911 tape is AWESOME too and at the link. The woman above is the dispatcher that helped the couple.

 

[SnakeswithLasers]

Gross Gaborn. Even for you.

 

[levious]

I'm having fun imagining that dead pan expression for the call, "yeah, they're usually wiped off..."

 

[fallengorn]

Ryan also got to deal with the less flowery aspects of birth as he helped gathered the placenta from the bathtub so it could be examined by doctors.

"Ugh, ... disgusting," Ryan moans.

:lol

 

[andycapps]

I'm assuming that the woman that was pregnant was rather... large? How do you not know your wife is pregnant? And how does she not know she is? Wouldn't the no periods for about 10 months tip her off?

 

[Costanza]

lol @ the 911 call

 

[GhaleonEB]

I'm assuming that the woman that was pregnant was rather... large? How do you not know your wife is pregnant? And how does she not know she is? Wouldn't the no periods for about 10 months tip her off?

She would have to be really obese for it to not show visually.

And she would have to be either 1) a liar or 2) stupid to keep it secret.

 

[Gomu Gomu]

Since when Adam is female name?

 

[levious]

Since when Adam is female name?

not female name, since forever, Angie female name... Adams family name...

 

[fallengorn]

Since when Adam is female name?

For Angie Adams,

um...

 

[Gomu Gomu]

I think I'll go to bed :lol

 

[andycapps]

She would have to be really obese for it to not show visually.

And she would have to be either 1) a liar or 2) stupid to keep it secret.

True, this guy may want to get a paternity test done. :lol

 

[Walshicus]

not female name, since forever, Angie female name... Adams family name...

There's something the father's been meaning to tell them. Their family name isn't Adams... it's Adama.

 

[Tony Rocky Horror]

Why am I laughing at that woman looking at the gaf logo. :lol

 

[adg1034]

There's something the father's been meaning to tell them. Their family name isn't Adams... it's Adama.

*Irish whistle plays gently in background*

 

[Infinitemadness]

Why am I laughing at that woman looking at the gaf logo. :lol

Wow, I was like "He just called that 12 yr old skater boy a woman".

Weird.

How do you not know yer pregnant that whole time!?

 

[jett]

Wow, I was like "He just called that 12 yr old skater boy a woman".

Weird.

How do you not know yer pregnant that whole time!?

When you're abnormally obese, I guess.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

I had the same thing happen to a roommate of mine a couple of years back. She was large and she would still have blood come out from the down-belows so she didn't see it coming. Then one day she had massive craps that she just couldn't handle. She spent an hour or so in a warm bath until another friend arrived. When she though she had to shit later, boy, she had another thing coming.

I now live happily by myself. I can't be living with people who randomly have babies. Lesson learned.

 

[BigGreenMat]

Is it wrong that when I read this I was thinking about the massive bill these people would get from the emergency personnel for not having insurance...

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

Is it wrong that when I read this I was thinking about the massive bill these people would get from the emergency personnel for not having insurance...

It's wrong that we even have to worry about that in the first place. But that's just my humble opinion.

 

[Gaborn]

Wow, I was like "He just called that 12 yr old skater boy a woman".

Weird.

How do you not know yer pregnant that whole time!?

He claimed in the 911 call (again, it's both amusing and pretty amazing and well worth the 10 minutes or so to listen to it) that his wife had just quit smoking and had put on weight as a result, they thought that was all it was. They have a couple other children, it's not like they have no idea you can get pregnant or something.

 

[fallengorn]

Yikes, its a good thing she quit smoking.