In one of the happiest outcomes you can imagine coming from the superstorm known as Hurricane Sandy that recently swept New York City and the Northeast, __a mom was able to miraculously give birth to a healthy baby boy__after facing more problems than any woman in labor ever should.
Barcelona-born Julia Alemany and husband Doron Markus were staying in an apartment near NYU in anticipation of her upcoming due date when contractions began at 6 p.m. on Monday, just as Sandy was hitting New York City, according to The New York Daily News.
Reaching the hospital, she begged a doctor to let her in–until the hospital went dark around 9 p.m. and the generators were submerged in water, so everyone had to be evacuated. How could she evacuate with all that pain, though? Doctors finally agreed to give her a low-dose epidural, which had to be done in the light of a flashlight and the glow of a couple of cellphones.
Loaded into an ambulance that had to drive through rain-and-wind pounded streets, a tree branch fell on the vehicle as they raced to Mt. Sinai just forty minutes before she gave birth. Finally arriving there at midnight, she gave birth to Micah Alemany-Markus at 12:48 a.m., saying "I was just so happy when I saw him, and he was safe."
Well, thank goodness for that! I'm really glad that this baby was born just fine after all of the chaos that happened that night.
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