Texas Mom Gives Birth Prematurely in Hospital Parking Lot: ‘She Was Ready to Come'

Mar. 15, 2025

Chloe Capps will one day have a very special birth story to share with her daughter.

Glynn raced to the hospital — which is about 30 miles north of Dallas — in time for her granddaughter’s birth, but just barely.

“I parked very far away, was running across the parking lot and see the truck, see the swarm of staff,” Glynn said.

“I tried to hold her in to get into the hospital, but I guess with me stressing a little bit,” she said. “She was ready to come.”

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Fortunately for the now mother of two, the hospital — which said that it has seen its fair share of parking lot births over the past few months — was ready as well.

Capps’ due date was originally Dec. 19, but Navy — all 6 lbs., 15 oz. of her — had other plans.

With the cameras gone and the fanfare about her daughter’s birth subsiding, she is now letting it all settle in.

“When everybody left yesterday and I was just in here alone,” she said. “I was crying, but it was just happy tears.”

source: people.com