It wasn\u2019t exactly a dream delivery for any first-time
mother, but for Falen Joseph and her mother,
MAZDA6owner Jana Mallery, the events in the wee
hours of July 25, 2006, were certainly memorable.
It all started at 2:20 a.m. when Falen alerted her
mom that her water had broken\u2014signaling her baby
was on its way. While Jana was
trying to calm her daughter\u2019s
nerves, she was also loading her
MAZDA6and preparing for the
30-minute drive from her home in
St. Martinville, LA, to Women\u2019s
and Children\u2019s Hospital in
Lafayette.
\u201cWhen we were on our way, I
told her just to breathe, that we
would make it to the hospital in
time, and please not to have the
baby in the car,\u201d said Jana, a Child
Welfare Service Assistant for the
State of Louisiana.
Later, as she pulled onto the
road to the hospital, she noticed
Falen was very uncomfortable and
had laid a towel down on the floor.
Not a good sign.
\u201cI asked if the baby was coming,
and she said \u2018no,\u2019 but she was
breathing hard,\u201d recalled Jana. \u201cI
told her to hang on, that we were
only two minutes away.\u201d
After pulling into the hospital
emergency drive-up and not seeing anyone, Jana quick-
ly pulled the car around to the side of the hospital and
ran through the double-doors. Luckily, she found a
nurse, but the nurse directed her back to the main en-
trance where she had just come from.
\u201cWhen I ran back to the car to pull it around, I heard
a baby crying,\u201d she said. \u201cI paused and said, \u2018Falen,
what is that?\u2019 but she was just laying back like nothing
was wrong. She said she caught the baby\u2019s head during
delivery and placed him on the floor of the car.
\u201cI was in shock,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t know whether to
talk to her, soothe the baby, or hop
in the car. I drove back to where I
had started from, pulled up to the
emergency room and told the
nurse that I no longer needed a
wheelchair\u2014the baby had already
been delivered. The nurse ran back
into the hospital, called an emer-
gency code, and doctors and nurs-
es immediately flooded out of that
hospital to help.\u201d
The baby boy, who was born
perfectly healthy at 2:55 a.m.,
weighed in at seven pounds and
was named Isaiah Israel Joseph.
But to Jana, he may always be
known by his nickname: \u201cSpeedy.\u201d
Ironically, Jana was in a similar
situation just one week later, when
she had to drive her mom\u2019s preg-
nant niece to the emergency room
for her baby\u2019s delivery. Fortunately
in this case, they made it in plenty
of time, and the baby girl was
born in the hospital as planned.
\u201cAs Mazda Sales Consultants,
we always highlight the performance and versatility of
Mazda cars,\u201d remarked Desiree Hebert, Sales Consul-
tant for Lafayette Mazda where Jana Mallery bought
her baby-mobile. \u201cHowever, this experience gives these
concepts entirely new meaning.\u201d\u25a0
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