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Opera Singer Gave 'Fast And Furious' Birth In Car On NJ Highway
Emily Geller said on social media that her baby girl arrived in the back seat of her can last Saturday while driving to the hospital.
LEBANON, NJ — New York Opera singer Emily Geller had her baby on the backseat of a car, on Route 78 in Lebanon and she shared the aftermath of the experience on social media.
"She arrived 'fast and furious'," Geller wrote on Instagram, calling the experience "empowering."
The baby girl, Rosemary Claire Hardman, was born unexpectedly on Saturday at 5:47 a.m.
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"She is living proof that we can do hard things," Geller said.
The singer talked in detail about birth to the Daily Voice and shared a link on social media to that article.
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According to the news site, the couple was on the way to Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, but the birth was too far along and the baby was born while Geller's husband was in the front driving.
"It went from 'Pull over'... to 'There's a baby,' in less than a minute," the mother told the news site. “With the next contraction, her entire body came out."
The baby girl is the couple's second child and both her and the mother are in good health.
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