A WOMAN was forced to give birth in the car park of her local McDonald’s as a snowstorm blasted her home state.
Analysia Beck, 25, and her husband Daniel named their baby boy after the fast food chain in light of the unusual circumstances of his arrival.
The Wisconsin mum started having contractions at home about 11pm on January 11 – and it was only a matter of hours before she was “hunched over on the ground screaming”.
She and Daniel called a babysitter to mind their two other children and raced to get in the car and to the hospital as quickly as possible.
It became clear once they were on the road that they were in the midst of a fierce snowstorm, but they remained hopeful and determined they would make it to the hospital in time.
Not long into their drive, Analysia felt an urge to push that was so strong she had to ask her husband to pull over, explaining that she felt as though she was sitting on the baby’s head.
Daniel veered their SUV into the car park of their local McDonald’s, which was closed, and dialled 911.
Analysia told USA Today: “The baby was coming so so fast and my body couldn’t wait any longer to push.”
She climbed into the back of the car and, after three pushes, the couple welcomed their son, naming him Micah – “McFlurry”, for short.
Paramedics are said to have “barely made it” to the scene, arriving just in time to “catch him”.
Analysia was elated to announce his safe arrival, gushing: “Our little McFlurry has been the sweetest treat.”
In a post shared to her Facebook page, she wrote: “Micah Daniel made his very dramatic entrance into the world at 4:12am on January 12th.
“While on our way to the hospital, he decided he wanted to make a quick stop at McDonald’s. He didn’t want to be born in the hospital!
“Micah was born in our trunk in the parking lot of McDonald’s during a blizzard and appropriately earned the nickname ‘McFlurry’.
She said it wasn’t lost on her that her little boy’s name, Micah Daniel, could also be shortened to “Mickey D’s”.
Of her chaotic birth experience, she wrote: “It was terrifying, traumatising, and painful giving birth all natural with no meds/doctors and seeing him come out completely blue because it happened so fast and literally in the snow.
“But he’s doing very well now and all we can do is praise and thank God for protecting us.”
People were quick to offer their congratulations, with one person commenting on her post: “That’s amazing, what a story! Congrats!”
Another said: “Congratulations, what a way to make his way into the world.”
