Rebecca Johnson, a special education teacher at Dupont Elementary, delivered her third daughter, Carlee Evangeline, on Sept. 9 at Tri Cities Hospital after experiencing what she believed were symptoms of a cyst or kidney stones.

"I think I caught the cyst and the nurse says, 'That's a head,'" Johnson said.

The nurse immediately called for backup, telling staff, "We need everybody in here right now, she's having a baby"

Johnson delivered Carlee within minutes. Carlee weighed 7 pounds, 8 ounces and measured 19 inches long.

"She was perfect and we were just like, what just happened here," Johnson said.

Johnson and her husband Lee, who works as a special education teaching assistant in Hopewell, married in 2011. After struggling with fertility issues for several years, they welcomed their

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