Mom Makes ‘Great Catch’ as Family Watches Her Deliver

PHOENIX — Delayed by rain and heavy traffic on her way to a local hospital, a nurse delivered her own baby while her husband and three children watched.

David Adam Durr was born Thursday in the cab of a pickup truck five miles shy of Community Hospital Medical Center.

Maria McDonald-Durr, who works as nursing supervisor at the hospital, was being driven to the center by her husband when rush-hour traffic was slowed by rain.

“We never stopped,” said her husband, Leonard Durr. “Missy not only delivered, she caught him, as a midwife or a doctor would have caught him. I said, ‘Great catch, Mama--and good delivery!’ ”