WORCESTER ― When expectant parents Lindsey L. Monti and Nicholas Fugere of Gardner checked into the AC Hotel by Marriott Worcester on Sunday morning, they knew their second daughter was on her way.
But they didn’t expect her to arrive so fast that she would be born in the hotel room rather than the hospital.
Monti, a school adjustment counselor at Gardner Elementary School, started having contractions around 4:30 a.m. Sunday. They arrived at UMass Memorial Medical Center —Memorial Campus on Belmont Street by 6 a.m. and sat in the hospital for a few hours, she said.
After a hospital resident checked her out, Monti was sent home with Fugere, her main squeeze for 10 years, around 12:30 p.m., she said.
Monti said she would have gone to the Leominster maternity unit at UMass Memorial HealthAlliance — Clinton Hospital instead of making the trip to Worcester, but the Leominster unit was closed back in September .
Due to the intensity of his wife’s contractions, Fugere decided that the couple shouldn’t head back to Gardner, which is 45 minutes away from the hospital. So they decided to get “a hotel for the night” at the AC Hotel by Marriott Worcester, approximately five minutes away from the hospital, she said.