Firefighter delivers baby on emergency call, then offers to adopt her (and he wasn’t joking!)

Last updated on: February 14, 2017 at 11:54 am by Bristol Palin

Firefighter delivers baby on emergency call, then offers to adopt her (and he wasn’t joking!) 2017-02-14T11:54:11-05:00 Bristol Palin

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This story is soooo sweet!

It was a surprisingly slow day for one of the busiest fire stations in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on November 11, 2011. Hadden had spent the day training and killing time cleaning engines.

When he finally sat down with his crew to eat dinner in the middle of his 24-hour shift, the phone rang — and he had to hop into an ambulance to make an emergency call. When he arrived on scene, he and his partner found a pregnant woman in labor. As soon as they helped her into the ambulance, she was ready to give birth.

It was the first time Hadden took charge during a delivery in his two decades of working.

“I was tasked with everything to do with Gracie,” Hadden told CBS News. “I helped her take her first breath.”

The team then called for backup and rushed to the hospital to drop off the mother and child. While filling out routine paperwork at the hospital, Hadden overheard nurses say the new mom requested the baby girl be put up for adoption “immediately.”

“Throw my name in the hat if this baby’s being put up for adoption,” Hadden said jokingly.

Turns out, he wasn’t joking. Though he already had two children, he and his wife couldn’t have any more children . Adoption was too expensive, so they just decided to commit this to prayer. He explained this to the biological mother, who had expressed a desire for the baby to be put up for adoption immediately.

Turns out, the firefighter’s family was a perfect fit for the child.

“It was meant to be,” Hadden said. “Everything that happened that day changed: my station, assignment, the location. So many things happened that made us 100 percent sure.”

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