Woman gave birth on the emergency room floor

After welcoming five children to the world already, Jess Hogan thought she knew exactly what to expect from childbirth.

But it turned out her “last baby” Max was intent on making a memorable entrance… on the floor of the emergency room.

“It was my craziest birth, but also, the most perfect, it was not at all what I had planned,” Jess shared in a blog post.

She’d been having contractions on and off for days when her water broke at home in the middle of the night. 

“The pain wasn’t troubling me too badly, I kept telling myself I would just ‘know’ if this was the real thing,” she explained.

“About 1 hour later I woke to a strange, long contraction. It wasn’t incredibly painful, but it caused me enough discomfort that I felt around in the dark for my husband and said ‘Travis, I think this is it.’” 

From there, things moved quickly.

The couple raced to the car before Jess even had time to put her shoes on. However, she did get a chance to fire off a text to her birth photographer, Tammy Karin, to let her know the baby was coming. 

“I vaguely remember [Travis] mentioning to me we passed a fox and that he had to run two red lights. Luckily for us, it was 3am and the roads were empty our entire drive,” Jess recalled. 

“As we neared the last turn to the hospital I began screaming that baby was coming,” she recalled. “Travis honked the horn rapidly as I screamed through the contractions and he pulled quickly into the ER drive.”

She had just made it through the front door of the hospital when Max made his move. 

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