Brewster woman reportedly gives birth in middle of Cape Cod traffic

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“They handed me a sterilized X-Acto knife, and I, like every father in Massachusetts, cut my baby’s umbilical cord in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot,” father Danya Mahota told the Cape Cod Times.

Traffic in Cape Cod.

Normally, Cape Cod summer traffic is considered casual. But for Rebecca and Danya Mahota, the traffic on Route 6 was anything but boring.

The Brewsters were on their way to the hospital on Aug. 8, driving on Route 6, when heavily pregnant Rebecca’s water broke, the parents told Cape Cod Times. The Mahotas were 26 minutes into what would have been a 56-minute drive when Danya stopped so Rebecca could deliver the baby, they said WCVB.

“I’m obviously driving, I’m reaching down between my wife’s legs, and sure enough I feel the top of my daughter’s head,” Danya told the Times.

Danya, who told Times he has no medical experience, delivered their child in the passenger seat. The baby is a girl named Summer.

“That was probably the most nerve-wracking, it was making sure that, okay, we’re breathing, we’re all here, we’re fine,” Rebecca told Times. “And we kind of look at each other, we’re like it just happened.”

A very dunkin’ delivery

The new parents, plus Summer, couldn’t wait for the ambulance on the shoulder of Route 6. So where did they go to wait for first responders? A Dunkin’ parking lot, of course. Workers rushed out to help the couple, Danya said Times.

“They handed me a sterilized X-Acto knife, and I, like every father in Massachusetts, cut my baby’s umbilical cord in a Dunkin Donuts parking lot,” he said.

In all the commotion, Danya said he lost his wedding ring when he gave birth to Summer. He told WCVB he found the ring on the side of the highway where Rebecca gave birth to Summer.

“Just as we were about to leave, I looked down, and by the grace of God, I found it right between my toes. I scraped some grass off and I just couldn’t believe it,” he told WCVB.

Both Rebecca and 11-day-old Summer are healthy and doing well, the couple said Times.