Baby Born In Brookfield Square Parking Lot

Parents describe a 48-minute tour de force that ends with 5 pound, 7 ounce baby girl being born on the ground outside the shopping mall.

It was 1:19 p.m. Nov. 30, and Danielle Goehner lay on her bedroom floor, wracked with pain. The mother-to-be reached out and clutched the bottom of a dresser and edge of the bedroom door. "I felt like I had to push and I didn't want to," she said. "Every instinct in my body tells me to push. So I was holding on, trying to put my energy into something else other than pushing." Danielle was 38 weeks pregnant while her husband, Scott Goehner, was at the veterinarian, picking up medicine for their dog. "I put down what I had, walked out to the car, jumped in the car and took off," he said.  He sped home, rushed into his Elm Grove house and found his wife, the love of his life, on the floor, about to give birth. "I walk in, see her there and …

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