Nurse delivers customer's baby outside Target: 'I’m grateful that I was there'
Caris Lockwood was shopping with relatives when one noticed a woman in labor.
— -- A nurse's Target trip took an unexpected turn after she found herself delivering a fellow shopper's baby.
Caris Lockwood, 24, of Atlanta was shopping with family members at the discount store on Aug. 25 when her mother noticed a woman in labor, Tanya Saint Preux Picault, 30.
Lockwood, a labor and delivery nurse at Piedmont Healthcare, sprang into action.
"I really wasn't nervous," she told ABC News. "It was certainly an incredible experience, and [I] truly believe it was one of those moments where God placed the right people in the right place at the right time. I'm grateful that I was there and able to help bring Tanya's baby into the world."
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Picault said she began feeling contractions after leaving a restroom. Soon after that, Lockwood's mother approached her.
"She came back and said, 'Can I just have my daughter, who's a labor and delivery nurse, come and look at you?'" Picault recalled.
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Twenty minutes later, outside the entrance of the store, Picault gave birth to her fourth child, a boy named Maleek, weighing 7 pounds, 10 ounces.
"We commend the nurses and medical staff as well as the Target team members who jumped in to help a woman who delivered a baby in a Target store in Georgia," a spokesperson for Target told ABC News. "We're happy to hear that the mother and baby are doing well and wish them all the best."
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Picault and Lockwood said they've kept in touch since the birth.
"God had her there for me that day," Picault said. "She did such a great job. It was on the news, and I recorded it so I can show [Maleek] as he gets older."