On November 16, 2015, Ashton Seaton began to experience labor pains around 3:30 in the morning. Her fiancé was away at the time for work, but she wasn’t too concerned since this wasn’t her first child. Seaton figured it would be fine to carry on as she’d planned.
She would call her mother and grandmother, ask them to come to her house, and have the latter stay with her firstborn son while she and her mother went to the hospital.
Seaton knows her water hadn’t broken by the time her mother and grandmother arrived, but the pain was steadily increasing. She had to stop on the driveway before she was able to climb into her mother’s car.
Half an hour later, Seaton’s contractions came to be too much.
Her mother pulled off the road, into a gas station with a convenience store, and Seaton peeled off to the bathroom.
According to Seaton, she “felt an intense need to go,” so she sat down on the toilet. But as she pushed downward, she felt something between her legs.
Her daughter was crowning, head dangling above the toilet.
When Seaton was rejoined by her mother – and two employees at the convenience store – they all worked together to help her lie down on towels on the floor and helped her deliver her daughter, right there on the bathroom floor.
By the time the ambulance came for them, Seaton was already nursing her newborn daughter, Mia.
There was little else to be done for mother and daughter (save from removing Seaton’s placenta) and ensuring they were both healthy and stable.
Seaton and her family were reunited in the hospital – her grandmother brought her son, and her fiancé took off from his work as soon as he heard the news – and after a few days of rest, Seaton was discharged to return home.
Now, everyone in town knows Seaton’s daughter, Mia, as “the Casey’s baby” because the little girl had been born in the Casey’s convenience store.
Seaton laughed, “Everyone wants to know why we didn’t name her Casey. It never crossed my mind!”
