Robert and Falon Griffin were en route to the hospital to deliver their baby when they made a quick stop at Chick-fil-A to drop their kids off with friends. Realizing she had to use the washroom Falon banged on the glass, and the staff let her in.
“Chick-fil-A was closed, it was way past 10,” Robert said. “We were able to bang on the door because she kept saying she kept saying she had to go to the bathroom.”
“And I was very insistent,” Falon added.
Thankfully the off-the-clock staff let the couple in because the pit-stop quickly turned serious. “I couldn’t hold anything in,” Falon said.
After kissing the kids goodbye he went to find his wife, only to be notified by the manager, “she’s in the restroom and she’s screaming”.
After entering the tiny stall he quickly realized they were not having their baby at the hospital.
“I can see just the top of Gracelyn’s head, just barely crowning, but I knew we couldn’t go anywhere. So I told her, ‘Sweetie, we’re gonna do something great, and we’re gonna do it right here and we’re gonna do it right now,'” Robert said.
Brenda, the restaurant’s drive-thru director, is used to delivering orders – but not orders like this!
“I hear high pitched screaming and I was like, okay – this is serious. This is happening. And I got on the phone with a 9-1-1 dispatcher,” she told WFMY News. “Assistance to the dispatcher over what color is the baby, is it crying,” she said.
As his baby girl was emerging Robert realized her umbilical cord was twice wrapped around her neck. Trying not to alarm his wife, he asked her to try to relax for a minute as he unwrapped the cord from the baby’s neck. With two more strong pushes, and using his shirt for a towel, out came Gracelyn Mae Violet Griffin.
“I couldn’t control it,” Falon said. “I was basically straddled the toilet – I wasn’t even sitting down. I was literally standing giving birth, with one hand on the wall and one hand holding her head.”
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The entire process lasted just six minutes, the family estimated.
While they waited for the paramedics to arrive Chick-fil-A staff warmed up white towels in the kitchen and keep bringing them over.
Emergency responders cut the cord while they were still in the bathroom.
And extra special part is that Gracie’s birth certificate reads “Born in Chick-Fil-A” and the hospital had Robert sign the birth certificate as the attending physician.
Chick-fil-A has reportedly gifted the newborn with free Chick-fil-A for life and has guaranteed her the first job when she turns 16.
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