A Key West woman was forced to deliver her baby while trying to flee from Hurricane Irma as it battered the Florida coast.
On Saturday, the Miami-Dade Police Department shared a photo of ‘baby Nayiri Storm’ – who came into the world hours before the category 3 storm made landfall, bringing 125mph winds.
‘Welcome to the world baby Nayiri Storm! Glad our officers were able to assist the family safely from hospital to hotel. #PerfectName,’ the department tweeted as a caption.
On Saturday, the Miami-Dade Police Department shared a photo of a baby born ahead of Hurricane Irma, captioned: ‘Welcome to the world baby Nayiri Storm! Glad our officers were able to assist the family safely from hospital to hotel. #PerfectName’ (above)
Cara Kesling and her husband (center) had learned that then-Category 5 Irma was heading straight to their home and fled to Miami-Dade, where the baby girl was safely delivered at Baptist Hospital in Kendall
Cara Kesling and her husband had learned that when Irma was still a Category 5 hurricane, it was heading straight to their home.
The family fled to Miami-Dade, where the baby girl was safely delivered at Baptist Hospital in Kendall.
On Saturday, the new mother was released from the hospital, and Miami-Dade police escorted the Keslings and Nayiri to a hotel, where they’re waiting out the storm.
Irma’s core hit the Florida Keys on Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.
Approximately 6.3 million people in Florida were ordered to evacuate their homes.
A trail of destruction and devastation has already been left in Irma’s wake along the Caribbean.
At least 25 have died as a result from the storm and hundreds of homes and businesses have been destroyed, including up to 95 percent of structures on the tiny island of Barbuda.
On Saturday, the new mother was released from the hospital, and Miami-Dade police escorted the Keslings and Nayiri (pictured) to a hotel, where they’re waiting out the storm
Irma’s core hit the Florida Keys on Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Approximately 6.3 million people in Florida were ordered to evacuate their homes
However, this is not the only case of a woman giving birth during the storm.
The Washington Post reports that a woman called 911 around 3.23am that she was in labor.
After emergency crews were unable to travel to get to her, she called again at 5.35am that she was about to give birth.
Paramedics, a dispatcher and a doctor from Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, on a conference call, walked her through her childbirth, including delivering the placenta and cutting the umbilical cord.
Crews were able to respond to only four calls overnight. The call from the woman in labor was not one of them.