This 12-Year-Old Girl Wanted To Be In The Room When Her Baby Brother Was Born But To Her Surprise The Doctor Let Her Help Deliver Him
When I was a little girl, I was asked what I wanted to be when I got older... I said, "I want to deliver babies!" My mom thought she was so proud and said, "You want to be a doctor?" I said, "NO. I just want to take the babies from the doctor and give them to their mom." Well, this little girl got to do that and a whole lot more when a doctor in Mississippi decided to exceed 12-year-olds expectations and let her deliver her brother, literally.
Jacee Dellapena couldn't wait until her new baby brother was born but this seventh-grader from Brandon, Mississippi, got the shock of her life when the doctor let her physically helped bring her baby brother into the world, getting to cut his umbilical cord and all.
Jacee wanted to be in the delivery room and watch her brother being delivered, but her mom was lying on a table that was propped up too high for her to see. “I started crying because I was too short to see anything,” she told TODAY. “The doctor was like, 'Just go ahead and get some gear on and come help me deliver the baby.' "I was like, are you kidding me? Are you being real?"
This even came as a surprise to her mom, Dede Carraway, 34. “I couldn’t believe it. I was like, what? Uh, no. Never in a million years. But the doctor said, ‘I’m being serious. I’ll guide her hands and everything,’” Carraway said. “So she got up in there and was suddenly in the middle of everything.”
Jacee had planned on being a veterinarian when she grew up but after this experience, I'm sure she'll consider being an OBGYN her mother said. Thanks to this amazing doctor who took the time to make this day a day she will never forget!
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