CHICAGO (WGN) - Parents Jasmine Kwong and Ashwin Avasarala are resting at home with their newborn baby girl Aira after being discharged from Prentiss Women's Hospital at Northwestern.
However, that's not where Aira was born.
"We catch ourselves just shaking our head in disbelief or lookin g at or just laughing out loud because it's just absolutely unbelievable," Avasarala said.
At around 8:30 a.m. Monday, the couple left their South Loop home to drive to the hospital as Kwong started experiencing contractions that kept on getting worse.
"Maybe around five in the morning, I started having cramps that were bad enough that they woke me up," Kwong said. "Baby just could not wait. I started feeling like something was coming for real this time, so by the time that we just crossed the bridge,