17-Year-Old Gives Birth in Shower
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A 17-year-old California girl secretly gave birth at home last week, then walked to the hospital with her baby still attached by its umbilical cord.
Xochitl Parra said she said she was nervous when the labor began, as she held 8-pound, 3-ounce son, Alejandro at St. Mary Medical Center.
Doctors at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit said that the little boy was normal and “eating like a champ.”
The teen said she was home alone and taking a shower at around 5:30 in the morning last Wednesday, getting ready for school, when the contractions started.
“I felt his head coming, so I sit down and pushed so he could come out,” she said.
Her home phone had been disconnected so she was unable to call 911, and she did not want to wake the neighbors at such an early hour. Instead, she wrapped up the baby, dressed and walked the four blocks to the hospital, baby and placenta still attached.
Parra, currently a sophomore at Long Beach Poly High, had kept her pregnancy a secret because she said she was afraid that her mother would kick her out of the house. News reports now say that her mother has since accepted the situation and plans to help the girl take care of her baby so she can stay in school.
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