Most water births happen in softly lit rooms, with midwives, tubs, and carefully calibrated temperatures. This one began in a public restroom at Johnny Morris’ Wonders of Wildlife Aquarium & Museum in Springfield, Missouri, with a woman in labor in a building full of fish.
On Dec. 3, Eli Snider, a senior emergency medical dispatcher with Mercy EMS, faced a sudden race to deliver a baby at an unexpected location — less than a month after another child was born in a Buc-ee’s parking lot in the same city.
Snider, 25, tells TODAY.com that several women were in the restroom with the mother, who has not been publicly identified, as he stayed on the phone with a bystander, calmly talking her through the delivery…