North Carolina Mom Delivers Twins in Minivan
Ransom and Dahlia DeConto were born two weeks before their due date
— -- A North Carolina couple expecting twins had prepared for everything when it came to their birth, except the fact that they could be born in the family’s minivan.
When that surprise became a reality, Courtney DeConto and her husband, Marco, quickly went into action.
“While he was driving I still had all my clothes on, so I was screaming 'take my pants off,' and he was trying to drive and take my pants off, and the baby came out and my pants caught him," Courtney DeConto told local ABC News affiliate WTVD.
DeConto and her husband had jumped into the family’s minivan when DeConto started feeling contractions, even though it was two weeks before her due date. Once she was in the minivan, DeConto’s water broke.
“Then I realized I really was in labor,” she said. “I didn't really think I was until we were in the van.”
The couple ignored advice from a 911 operator to stay put on the road and decided to continue to drive to the hospital.
Around 15 minutes into their drive, the first baby, a son they named Ransom, was born.
Nearly 10 minutes later, Courtney gave birth to their daughter, Dahlia.
“She came right on the on-ramp I think, for 440,” Marco told WTVD. “She came and then she [Courtney] had both of them and she was talking to them and trying to keep them warm.”
The two newest additions to the DeConto family were then escorted by their parents to the local hospital where they were supposed to be born. Both babies were healthy and are now at home with their parents and older sister.
“To have both of them delivered without medical intervention, and I'm a Type 1 diabetic as well, so there were just a lot of complications we were hoping to avoid,” Courtney said. “And in the end we avoided all of them in this crazy situation, so we just felt really blessed.”
Though the babies are now just 3-weeks-old, their birth story has already been told many times, according to their parents.
“I think they'll be sick of it by the time they're 3. They won't want to hear it again,” Courtney said.