The time and place a person gives birth can often be unpredictable, and for this Wisconsin couple, it was at the start of a snowstorm outside of a McDonald's.
Analysia and Daniel Beck's baby made a sudden entrance into the world two weeks early in the parking lot of a McDonald's in Hales Corners, a village in Milwaukee.
"He came straight out into the snow. So, it literally snowed on his face for probably 10 minutes. That was his first experience in the world," mother Analysia Beck said Micah Daniel Beck is 6 days old.
"He's great. He's a calm baby," Analysia said.
Analysia began to get contractions around two in the morning and woke her husband, Daniel, up.
"By the time he was out and got his marbles together, I was like, 'It's happening. We need to go,'" Analysia said.
"So we're driving and then her mom is driving behind us and we're probably five minutes down the road," Daniel said.
The couple knew they weren't going to make it to the hospital. They saw the golden arches and quickly turned into the parking lot of McDonald's.
Help came rushing at the scene to help deliver the baby including EMT's and the Hales Corners Fire Department firefighters.
" By the time we got on scene, Malak was actually the first one to go over to her, and she was crowning," Brianna Baltutis, firefighter and EMT, said of firefighter and EMT Thomas Malak.
"They showed up and they ran in and kind of saved the day," Analysia said.
"She's in the back car and she's all ready to go. She's saying it's coming," Malak said.
Micah Daniel came into the world weighing eight pounds plus a little more than a quarter pounder. He was born in the parking lot as snow fell hard around him.
"It hit me like halfway through, and I just kind of laid my head back in the trunk and I was like, I'm having my baby at McDonald's. This cannot be real," Analysia said.
It's a call Baltutis said she'll remember forever.
"Unfortunately, in this field, we see a lot of people leaving this earth. And it was nice to see the other side of it and help somebody deliver their child, which I think is super cool," Baltutis said.
The Becks had already planned on his name being Micah Daniel.
"We didn't even realize until the jokes started kind of pouring in that it could be shortened from Micah Daniel to Mickey D's or Mick D's or something. He was already starting to call him McFlurry," Analysia said.
Both Micah and Analysia are healthy after the unexpected birth, with plans for Micah to try a Happy Meal as soon as possible. He joins a big brother and big sister in the family.
Source: Wesh