{"id":236542,"date":"2025-09-18T14:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236542\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T14:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T14:28:11","slug":"dallas-dad-delivers-baby-in-hospital-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/236542\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas dad delivers baby in hospital parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/7E0B08FEC0A0AE5DD4738E33F5E3125B-0-1758203328521.jpg\" alt=\"RAW: Baby delivered in parking lot of Dallas hospital\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-7a5d4fdb=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>DALLAS<\/strong> &#8211; A crowd of more than a dozen nurses, doctors, and even the president of Methodist Dallas Medical Center assisted in delivering a baby outside the hospital after her father pulled up to the main lobby in a panic.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">On Sept. 2, baby Kamilah Mendoza was born in the family&#8217;s SUV. Her father, Luis Mendoze, told doctors he was just two blocks from the hospital when his wife started having intense contractions and the baby&#8217;s head began to emerge. When he pulled up to the hospital&#8217;s valet stand, he jumped out to get help, then delivered his own daughter as hospital staff members ran to the SUV.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The hospital&#8217;s president, Phillips, happened to be near the front entrance at the time. &#8220;Not every day at a hospital is like a television drama, but this day it was,&#8221; Phillips said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">&#8220;Dad was the hero of the day,&#8221; said Carrie Urista, a nurse manager who retired from Methodist Dallas after 43 years and now volunteers at the front desk. &#8220;He had already lifted the baby up and laid her on Mommy&#8217;s tummy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Dallas family returned to the hospital on the baby&#8217;s official due date to thank the staff and show off baby Kamilah. Kamilah has two sisters at home, ages 10 and 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> Information in this article comes from Methodist Dallas Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/health-care\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS &#8211; A crowd of more than a dozen nurses, doctors, and even the president of Methodist Dallas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":236543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,1596,7290,1141,50,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-236542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-county","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115225775896016951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}