Special delivery at Waffle House: Powder Springs officer aids with birth

A Powder Springs Police officer made a special delivery early Friday at a Waffle House.

Officer Kathy Green took a medical assistance call about 1:40 a.m. at the restaurant at C.H. James Parkway and Florence Road. There she found Marisa Escamilla in a mini van in labor, according to police.

Elissa Eubanks /eeubanks@ajc.com

Officer Kathy Green, mother Marisa Escamilla and soon-to-be named baby at Wellstar Cobb Hospital in Austell. Green delivered Escamilla’s baby at a Waffle House restaurant.

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Escamilla, 22, could not make it to the hospital, and emergency medical personnel could not arrive in time.

When the baby began to crown from a contraction, Green helped with the delivery of the child, police said.

Escamilla, of Dallas, was holding her new son when medical personnel arrived. They were taken to Wellstar Cobb Hospital.