A group of California firefighters have reunited with a baby they helped save after the child was born on the side of the road well before her due date.
Jazmin Quijano was just 22 weeks pregnant when she suddenly went into labor in June, according to NBC affiliate KCRA and CBS affiliate KOVR.
The mom-to-be was on her way to St. Joseph’s Hospital in Stockton, but the hospital reportedly was not equipped to care for a premature baby.
So Quijano and her partner began their journey to UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento. However, the baby did not wait for them to reach the hospital.
Quijano was forced to give birth to an unresponsive baby on the side of Highway 99 around 2 a.m. local time, The Sacramento Bee reported.
“It was scary,” Quijano told the paper. “What happens if you don’t survive? Because she wasn’t crying. She wasn’t even moving at…