It was a tense moment when a woman went into labor at a gas station in Merritt Island, Florida. on Friday, Dec. 8, but thankfully, a man who had stopped for gas turned out to be just what the doctor ordered.
“I could wait for the ambulance or deliver the baby,” Soto told People. “I don’t know how the baby’s doing at this point. I thought it was better to deliver the baby.”
Soto instructed the father-to-be to round up some crucial supplies: scissors, gloves, and shoelaces.
The baby came surprisingly quickly.
“Normally patients in the hospital push for an hour or two,” Soto said, but this baby was born after just one push by the mother, according to People.
In another twist of fate, the new mother turned out to already know Soto, having been a former patient of his.
“Thank God everything came out fine,” Soto told People.
An ambulance arrived not long after that and whisked mother and child away to the hospital.
“She has an angel watching over her, that’s for sure,” said Soto.
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