What's something you've done off the clock?
Was it ringing in a customer? Filing some last-minute paperwork. What about delivering a baby when you were about to deliver your own?
It sounds crazy, but that's exactly what happened with one Kentucky-based doctor. Her selfless act has proven what we already knew to be true: women are amazing.
She was moments away from being induced for labor when she heard a woman next door screaming in distress. Despite being in a hospital gown and about to give birth herself, she checked on the women.
There, she recognized the woman in distress. Her name is Leah Halliday-Johnson.
With the on-call doctor away from the hospital and a dire situation at hand (the baby's umbilical cord was around its neck), Dr. Hess stepped in.
Meanwhile, nurses had told Halliday-Johnson not to push. “I was not being quiet about the fact that it was difficult for me not to push,” she told People.
“She was definitely in doctor mode,” Halliday-Johnson told NBC. “My husband noticed something was going on because she had on a hospital gown, but I didn’t notice that because I was on the delivery table. I was in my own world there.”
The new baby joined a sister, 13, and brothers aged five and four.
"I had actually taken a call the day before, so I thought really that I was working up to the last minute. But this was literally ’til the last second,” Dr. Hess told TV station WLEX.
She then returned to her own room afterward, where she took off her boots and had her own little girl that same night.
“Pretty amazing what she did,” she told news channel Lex 18.
“I feel very lucky she was there and the type of person she is and step up to do what she did. We really appreciate her.”
"U are amaziiiiiing. U make me proud to spell my name W-O-M-A-N!!!!" one user commented on Facebook.
"That is being a doctor. A real compassionate healer, not the crap that media writes about us being in it for money or wanting kick backs from pharma," another added.
"She also was on vacation when her family was in town 2 weeks before my sister's baby was due, she came in to deliver my nephew as emergency c- section bc her water broke early while she was also pregnant & on vacation bc she's that awesome," they shared.
"She delivered my son and I have seen her for years and would not want anyone else! She has helped me in so many ways! She's a blessing!! You go Dr. Hess!!!"
