By EMS1 Staff
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — A firefighter-EMT and his adopted daughter returned to the ambulance where he helped deliver her five years earlier.
Inside Edition reported Marc Hadden, 47, and his daughter Gracie, 5, recently visited the same vehicle where they first met.
“Right here in this very spot is where I held you for the very first time. How cool is that?” Hadden told Gracie.
Hadden responded to a call in 2011 from a woman complaining of abdominal pain. When crews arrived, they realized she was in labor.
“It was a pretty serious call for us,” he said. “We got her on some oxygen, started some IVs and literally as we were getting ready to leave the parking lot in the ambulance, my partner said, ‘We’re about to deliver a baby right here.’ We had no time to prepare. Before we could do anything — we hadn’t even cut her clothes — Gracie came right out. Immediately she was handed to me.”
While at the hospital, Hadden overheard that the child was to be adopted. Two days later, Marc and his wife, Beth, welcomed Gracie into their family.
“Gracie and I just have a major bond,” Hadden said.
The family said Gracie has “quite a spirit” and enjoys playing with her two older brothers.
She’s also well aware of her story.
“I was born in an ambulance,” she said. “My daddy delivered me.”