Washington mom gives birth in credit union parking lot

An officer was able to help a Ridgefield, Washington, mom deliver her baby on Wednesday morning after the baby boy couldn’t wait to get to the hospital.

Aja Shelton went to the hospital Tuesday night, but they sent her home because the baby wasn’t ready to be born. Her due date was still more than three weeks away.

Wednesday morning, Aja’s contractions started and she and her sister-in-law headed to the hospital, but her baby wouldn’t wait.

“I just knew he was coming,” Shelton told KPTV. “I was just trying to get him out.”

Luckily, Ridgefield Police Officer David Bone was starting his shift and was in the area around the same time. And before he became a police officer, he was a paramedic for 11 years.

He said he noticed a woman waving him down in the parking lot of the IQ Credit Union and went over to help deliver the baby.

Two minutes after Bone arrived, little baby Silas was crying in his arms.

“I had enough time to get out of my car, walk up and, oh here comes baby,” Bone said. “I didn’t have a whole lot of time because the head was crowning and I just basically put my hand underneath the baby’s head and helped the baby out.”

Shelton’s husband, Seth Preston, was in Longview and had to hurry to meet his son. Doctors say Silas is a healthy little boy and his parents should be able to take him home in a couple of days.