birthing center

Natasha Downing was planning to deliver her baby at a birthing center but her unborn child just couldn’t wait.

Downing, 34, was experiencing contractions every 30 seconds Aug. 22 at her home in Calabasas and was planning to go with her midwife to the birthing center when she realized that she was not going to make it.

The whole birth was captured on the Downings’ doorbell camera, which shows her squatting and delivering the newborn next to the suitcase and bag her husband had packed for her for the birthing center.

At Hillsdale Hospital in southern Michigan, a 65% increase in respiratory illness activity in late December triggered a limitation to visitors in the birthing center.

“I couldn’t have asked for anything better, other than delivering at a birthing center,” Hubbard said.