Is giving birth in the back seat of a car all that weird? OK, no, it’s not.
Remember the episode of “Everybody Loves Raymond” when brother Robert, a cop, helped his sister-in-law, Deborah, squeeze out a newborn?
Now Officer Jeannie Yates knows how Robert felt.
Yates pulled over a speeding car in Arkansas, and seven minutes later she helped deliver a baby boy.
Baby, mother and father were fine. Their workplaces no doubt are covered with e-mails and other notes exclaiming over the new kid on the block.
The odd thing about this whole deal? Yates said she herself gave birth to her first child at home by herself during a snowstorm.
But hey, that’s what the hardy folks down in that part of the country do. They’re tough, self-sufficient, faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound.
Yes, we’re talking about Arkansans. And Oklahomans.
Especially Okies.

Posted at May 20, 2004 11:35 AM