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By Cathryn Conroy, Netscape News Editor
Rhonda Schafer gets a lot of credit for keeping her cool. On Monday afternoon, she was teaching her class of 3- and 4-year-old children at Bear Creek Elementary School in Euless, Texas when she suddenly--and we mean suddenly--went into labor with her third child a week before her due date. Five minutes after the first labor pain, she gave birth. In the classroom. But in that crucial five minutes, the quick-thinking Mrs. Schafer managed to get her students out of the classroom and get the school nurse in the classroom.
The baby girl was born without any complications and was wrapped up in a co-worker's sweater. Euless Fire Department emergency medical workers arrived about 10 minutes after the baby was born--just in time to cut the cord. Both mother and daughter were transported to Baylor Medical Center and are doing well. So what was it like to give birth behind the teacher's desk? "It was a very nice, quiet environment, if you can imagine that at an elementary school," Fire Department spokeswoman Christine Cox told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Just that morning Mrs. Schafer told school librarian Cynda Mast that she was due in about a week or whenever the baby was ready. "I guess she got ready this afternoon," quipped Mast. The baby does have one distinction in her short life: She is the first to be born at Bear Creek Elementary School.
Rhonda Schafer gets a lot of credit for keeping her cool. On Monday afternoon, she was teaching her class of 3- and 4-year-old children at Bear Creek Elementary School in Euless, Texas when she suddenly--and we mean suddenly--went into labor with her third child a week before her due date. Five minutes after the first labor pain, she gave birth. In the classroom. But in that crucial five minutes, the quick-thinking Mrs. Schafer managed to get her students out of the classroom and get the school nurse in the classroom.
The baby girl was born without any complications and was wrapped up in a co-worker's sweater. Euless Fire Department emergency medical workers arrived about 10 minutes after the baby was born--just in time to cut the cord. Both mother and daughter were transported to Baylor Medical Center and are doing well. So what was it like to give birth behind the teacher's desk? "It was a very nice, quiet environment, if you can imagine that at an elementary school," Fire Department spokeswoman Christine Cox told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Just that morning Mrs. Schafer told school librarian Cynda Mast that she was due in about a week or whenever the baby was ready. "I guess she got ready this afternoon," quipped Mast. The baby does have one distinction in her short life: She is the first to be born at Bear Creek Elementary School.
