Madeline Furnas could see the heavy rain unleashed by Hurricane Milton from her hospital window, but she knew she had to focus on giving birth to her first child.
Thousands of Floridians hunkered down at home and in evacuation shelters last week as Hurricane Milton slammed into Florida’s west coast. But as the storm unleashed deadly tornadoes, power outages, and flooding en masse, dozens of mothers across the state gave birth – some for the first time – under less-than-ideal circumstances. In Polk County, sheriff’s deputies helped a mother-to-be get to the hospital just in time after she went into labor in the middle of the night as Milton raged on.
I didn’t know how the roads were going to be when we got to the hospital,” said Dunchie, an early childcare worker in Winter Park, Florida. Dunchie said she didn’t know what to expect, it was her first time giving birth and most of her family had to stay home due to the storm. But after four hours of labor, her son Shamar was born.
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