Another Roadside Delivery
By Danell Swim
February 29, 2008
Kohl, 23, a dispatcher for the Rolling Meadows Police and Fire Departments, was the calm voice on the cell phone Tuesday night when Morsch and his pregnant wife, TC, delivered their daughter in the front seat of their Nissan Altima.
“You’ve got to call,” TC Morsch, 37, recalled telling her husband as he sped from their Lake Zurich home to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.
She could feel their third child being born when they were still 2 miles from the emergency room.
With his wife grabbing at his coat sleeve in pain, Morsch pulled to the side of Algonquin Road, just east of Illinois Highway 53 in Rolling Meadows. He turned on the emergency flashers, then dialed 911.
“He said his wife’s giving birth and the baby is halfway out,” said Kohl, who got the call at 9:29 p.m.
Kohl told Morsch to encourage his wife to take a deep breath and push. When that didn’t work, he suggested she use her hands to pull her knees closer to her chest, take a deep breath and push again.
That time, the 7-pound, 5-ounce baby girl was born.
“She came out and she started to cry,” a wonderful sound, TC Morsch said Wednesday afternoon from her hospital bed.
Kohl told dad how to clean the baby’s nose and mouth and then wrap her with clean towels they had brought.
Paramedics arrived in time to cut the umbilical cord and found mom, dad and the baby girl doing well.
The couple picked what they considered the most unique of the four names they considered for their daughter — Meegan — “because she certainly had a unique entrance into this world,” her mom said.
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