Jenesis Turner entered the world at 8:35 a.m. Tuesday — a few days later and about 2 miles short of her mom’s plan.
Jade Turner, 26, and her sister were driving from Deerfield Beach to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale on Tuesday morning when it became apparent Turner was not going to make it to the hospital in time to deliver her second baby.
Turner’s sister got off Interstate 95 and was met with morning rush-hour traffic, then pulled over in a residential area near Southwest 17th Avenue and Southwest 12th Court off of Davie Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue officials told the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue received the call of a woman in labor about 8:20 a.m., said Lt. Evelio Manso. As the Rescue 247 crew and the Engine 47 crew headed to where Turner and her sister had parked, they, too, were fighting through morning traffic.
Engineer Anthony Schutzer said Davie Boulevard was a “parking lot” as they were on their way, and the address they first received — Southwest 17th Avenue and Davie Boulevard — wasn’t quite right, which added a bit of confusion. Once they got an updated location, they found the car within seconds, Schutzer said.