For baby Eva, ER waiting room is delivery room / photo
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South County Hospital's emergency-room waiting room turned into something else for a pregnant mother who could wait no longer. David and Chantha Angell had turned in at about 11:30 last night in their North Kingstown home. If the miracle of life was on its way soon, Chantha Angell said in an interview, she was expecting soon to mean perhaps later today. (Baby's delivery date had been pegged at Jan. 19). "Yesterday was supposed to be may last day at of work," Chantha Angell said this afternoon. "I didn't feel anything all day [from the baby] but maybe minor pressure." Her contractions started coming around bedtime last night, but "they were very far apart," she said. Come 3:45 a.m. today, Chantha woke up her husband and told him her water had broken. Things escalated on the car ride to South County Hospital, in South Kingstown's Wakefield section. "She was saying, 'I feel like I need to push now'," recalled David Angell. He dialed 911 and asked if he should pull over so an ambulance could pick them up. Keep driving, he was told. "I just felt like the baby wanted to come out," Chantha Angell said. The couple and their 6-year-old daughter pulled up to the hospital lobby. Inside, he said he found no one at first. He yelled around and went through a door marked "Do not enter." He told a nurse what was happening. Angell said he could see the imprint of the baby's head through his wife's clothing. Several nurses came out and delivered baby Eva (pronounced Ay-va) in the waiting room at about 4:20 a.m. She weighed in a 7 lbs., 5 oz. -- projo.com staff writer Michael P. McKinney 
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She is beautiful! I can't wait to see her!
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