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When a pregnant teacher went into labor at school, her principal and coworker helped deliver the baby in a bathroom. “It happened so fast that we didn’t have time to think about what to do — we just reacted,” Amy Simmons, the principal of Cunningham Elementary School in Wichita Falls, Texas, tells TODAY.com. On Aug.
” The three women clustered inside the bathroom for the delivery while Paige, who was 30 weeks pregnant, stood over the toilet, according to Strain. “I dove underneath her and caught the baby in my hands,” Strain tells TODAY.com. Baby Isabella was born weighing two pounds, nine ounces. Simmons cranked paper towels out of the bathroom dispenser to wrap Isabella while Strain rubbed her chest and wiped her face off. “She opened her beautiful little eyes and looked at us,” says Strain.
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