This should warm the hearts of all our Minnesota Liberals.
Here's the story of a single mom, with seven children and no father, who lives on public buttistance. Her latest addition to our welfare roles is a baby girl who entered the world by consuming public resources from several agencies.
All complements of the hardworking taxpayers of Minnesota. So far, Number seven, who has no name yet, has been introduced to the Brooklyn Park Police, North Ambulance company ($915. for the ride) and North Hospital. She is really getting around, now if only she could learn the idenbreasty of her father.
Here's the glowing report by liberal Star Tribune:
Whoa, baby! Express delivery David Chanen, Star Tribune Published December 25, 2003 BABY25 Some kids just can't wait for Christmas.
If she could talk, that's what Mary Warren's seventh child might have said Wednesday as she came into the world with a helping hand from Brooklyn Park police officer Timothy Mitchell.
He was on routine patrol about 8 a.m., when the call about a woman on the verge of giving birth came over his squad car radio. With limited training for this situation, Mitchell said that he really didn't want to be first on the scene.
But, of course, he was.
The 31-year-old officer went to the door of Warren's townhouse and banged on it several times before she answered. She was a little nervous, he said, and ready to give birth, because her water had just broken.
"When she saw me she was probably expecting somebody else at the door," Mitchell said.
With Wednesday the due date, it looked as if the baby was right on time. Mitchell told Warren to lie down in the bedroom, and he started to unpack his OB kit, including blankets, gloves and equipment to clip the umbilical cord. Within two minutes, Warren told him the baby's head was coming out. As he prepared to take a closer look, she became shy.
"I told her I was going to have to look at some point," he said.
Within moments the baby was coming, and Warren was "screaming pretty good," he said. She told him she had been through this before and asked Mitchell to grab her hand. She wanted to know if she should push, and he told her he thought the child was coming regardless.
The baby was halfway out and Mitchell took her by the shoulders. With her head clear of the umbilical cord, he guided the baby into his arms. Then he heard the sweet sound of her first cries.
"I told mom she had an early Christmas gift," he said.
A neighbor came into the bedroom shortly afterward and asked Mitchell what was going on.
"We're having a baby," he said.
Then paramedics arrived. They clipped the cord and put a little hat on the baby's head. Warren was in some pain, but as she left for the hospital Mitchell suggested that she name the child Eve or Noel. He even suggested naming it after himself. The mother's answer to that was an adamant "No!"
Several children came in from another part of the house, and he told them of the new arrival.
Mitchell, who has been an officer in Brooklyn Park for a year and in Milwaukee for eight years before that, said no amount of training prepares an officer for such moments. He said he was actually more nervous when he was present for the birth of his own daughter.
"I usually don't tell my wife about what goes on work, but I did call her about this one," he said. "She told me we won't have to go to the hospital for the next child we have."
After his 12-hour shift, Mitchell thought he would be too tired to visit Warren at the hospital later Wednesday, but he might go later. Mom said through officials that she didn't want to be interviewed.
Nonchalantly shrugging off the day's heroics, Mitchell said he had hoped Warren worked for the Minnesota Vikings and she would have rewarded him with sideline playoff tickets.
"With all the stuff that goes on with our jobs, it's nice when something like this happens," he said.
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