DENVER—Dominique Trevino says she was taking the bus to a pregnancy checkup when she realized the baby would arrive before she did.
The 18-year-old Trevino got off the bus at the downtown Denver Public Library and gave birth just inside the door Tuesday morning.
Trevino showed off her healthy new daughter, 5-pound, 12-ounce Sariah Unique, at Denver Health Medical Center on Wednesday.
Library staff helped Trevino till an ambulance arrived. Paramedics say the baby was halfway out when they got there.
Zachary Laugheed, a library security guard, gave Trevino his jacket and helped her into the library, which hadn’t yet opened for the day.
“I was scared. I didn’t know what was going on,” said Trevino.
It’s the second time in two days a Denver-area baby arrived before moms were ready. Firefighters in Westminster delivered a baby in an ambulance along U.S. 36 on Monday when the outside temperature was 2 degrees.
Authorities say Cassandra Garcia and her baby Daniel are both healthy.
