12-year-old Jacee Carraway was in the delivery room right next to her mother when the doctor asked her if she would like to help.
Dede Carraway was in the delivery room of a Jackson, Mississippi hospital on Tuesday, about to give birth to her third child. Her eldest child Jacee was right there with her for emotional support and was following the process eagerly and with interest, ready to meet her new baby brother.
Dr. Walter Wolfe noticed the young girl’s eager interest and asked Jacee if she would like to help him bring her brother into the world. Jacee instantly agreed. The doctor then helped the 12-year-old through the entire process, even letting her cut the baby’s umbilical cord.
It turns out Jacee also wanted to help when Dede gave birth to her middle son 18 months ago, who, according to her mother, Jacee has had a close emotional bond with ever since, but at that stage Dede and husband Zack decided their daughter was too young.
However knowing that the latest baby would be her last, Carraway said she and her husband decided it was time for young Jacee to experience the miracle of childbirth.
She told Fox News that she couldn’t describe how it felt to have Jacee helping with her brother’s birth. She said if they had told her 12 years ago that her daughter would be delivering her last born son, she would have said, “Never in a million years,” adding she would have said they were crazy.
As for Jacee, the image above, posted by Dede on Facebook, clearly shows the emotion the young girl was feeling.
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