A Florida couple says they’re grateful everything turned out well after they unexpectedly welcomed their baby a few days early during Hurricane Milton .
Kenzie Lewellen told “Good Morning America” she started getting contractions in the early morning of Oct. 9 as rain was coming down in Port Charlotte, Florida, where she lives with her boyfriend Dewey Bennett III.
The young couple said they were particularly nervous as hurricane conditions started to pick up because Bennett’s late father, Dewey Bennett, Jr., had a heart attack during Hurricane Irma and because he couldn’t be transported to a hospital and treated in time, died on Sept. 15, 2017.
“My dad passed away during Hurricane Irma, so I was really nervous on how we were going to get to the hospital because the ambulance couldn’t get to him fast enough [in 2017],” Bennett, 24, told “GMA.”