# I caught a baby!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 7, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226 "2002-10-07T17:23:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/1 "2002-10-07T17:23:18Z")
I started training as a Labor and Delivery RN in our high-risk unit in August and although I’m not on my own yet, I’m getting pretty independent. I was getting ready to do a check on my laboring patient so I had one glove on and then SURPRISE! Lots of black hair, then a face and I reach for the call light and send dad sprinting to the nurse’s station while I catch and place baby girl on mom’s tummy. I want to deliver babies forever. How many people can say they personally delivered a child? I’d be so proud of myself but I’m just so awestruck by it. ---
**Author:** ![dantheman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dantheman/32/9421_2.png) [@dantheman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dantheman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/2 "2002-10-07T17:27:55Z")
Wow, how cool! Sounds like fun, but a bit messy for me… congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/3 "2002-10-07T17:54:44Z")
Grats **Cyn**! It’s a neat feeling. I’ve done it for two of my four little rugrats. I caught my son a little over two years ago and my youngest daughter about five months ago. 🙂 Welcome to the club! Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![meek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ce73a5/32.png) [@meek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meek)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/4 "2002-10-07T22:13:56Z")
Very cool, **Cyn**. I’m glad that after you caught it, you didn’t spike it and do the touchdown dance. [sub]which would have been my first reaction…[/sub] 😃 ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2002, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/5 "2002-10-07T23:00:15Z")
awesome! did they name the baby after you? ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/6 "2002-10-08T00:48:20Z")
I’ve caught two babies, both my own. There is something so absolutly awsome about it. I wish I was an OB or something. Now I just have to toss my kids in ther air to catch them. ---
**Author:** ![Cyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@Cyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyn)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/7 "2002-10-08T01:43:54Z")
I’m still caught up with delivering that little girl. The family named her Anjelica Brianne, not Cyn, but oh, well. Maybe the next one! **Drachillix** mentioned my doing a victory dance, so I did it in Von’s…better late than never! ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/8 "2002-10-08T03:37:05Z")
Oh! I thought this was going to be about catching a baby from your SO or spoose–kinda like catching a cold. _nevermind_ ---
**Author:** ![Melandry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Melandry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melandry)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/9 "2002-10-08T04:21:29Z")
Yeah, I must admit I clicked because I couldn’t figure out the situation from the thread title. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/10 "2002-10-08T05:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Melandry \* > \*\*Yeah, I must admit I clicked because I couldn’t figure out the situation from the thread title. \*\* Me too. The only baby I ever caught was one I chased down before he fell over a cliff on four-tree island…his mommy thanked me profusely. One-year-olds can run quick! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Gazelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Gazelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gazelle)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/11 "2002-10-08T12:45:04Z")
Congratulations, **Cyn** … Sounds like an amazing experience. Maybe someday… ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/12 "2002-10-08T12:50:01Z")
Did you catch her by the toe? eenie meenie minie moe. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![apotheosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba8739/32.png) [@apotheosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apotheosis)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/13 "2002-10-08T13:03:15Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by tomndebb \* > \*\*I thought this was going to be about catching a baby from your SO or spoose–kinda like catching a cold. _nevermind_ \*\* I was picturing Cyn peering out from under a bush, at a box trap baited with a teething ring. I need to lay off the RoadRunner cartoons. ---
**Author:** ![Spiratu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@Spiratu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiratu)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/14 "2002-10-08T17:09:34Z")
I pictured an unfortunate kid falling out a high rise window just as **Cyn** happened to be gesturing with outstretched arms underneath. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2002, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-caught-a-baby/131226/15 "2002-10-08T17:18:20Z")
How exciting, **Cyn!** I’ve never delivered a baby, but my husband has a couple of times…usually in the back of the ambulance in the Hardee’s parking lot or somewhere like that. Quite an experience! Best, karol