A Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue firefighter helped his wife give birth to their daughter from the back seat of the family’s minivan at a Fort Lauderdale gas station. Baby Josephine — known as Baby Jo — was born on Sept. 30 in the back seat of a Chrysler Pacifica minivan at a Chevron gas station.
“It happened so fast,” Carissa, the baby’s mother, said. “That’s what I can’t express — how fast. Oh, yeah, this is happening.”
“This is the cream of the crop,” Matt, the baby’s father, said.
Carissa said Baby Jo is the couple’s third child. She was five days late when Carissa’s water broke during a massage, and the couple believed they had the 25 minutes to get from Oakland Park to Coral Springs.
However, Baby Jo had other plans, and by the time the couple reached the gas station, the baby was ready.