Real Happy Meal: Georgia woman gives birth to baby girl in McDonald's restroom
Alandria Worthy and her fiancé stopped at a McDonald's restaurant in Atlanta, Georgia on Nov. 23 morning so the pregnant woman could use the restroom as her labor intensified, reports Dailymail.
The woman subsequently said that the labor progressed.
“I went to the bathroom and my water broke right away,” Worthy said.
After the woman started screaming, restaurant manager Tunisia Woodward went into the restroom to see what was going on.
“I opened the door and didn’t see anyone, but I noticed feet under the door,” Woodward said. “I opened the stall, and a woman was sitting on the toilet and screaming. Then I realized that I needed to tell my team: “Today we are having a baby.”
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The manager, accompanied by two other employees and fiancé Worthy DeAndre Phillips, immediately set to work.
“I tried to calm her down because she was scared,” Phillips said.
I thought, "Just breathe." I put her on the floor and took off her clothes. The McDonald's employees were standing next to her, holding her hands, I put her legs in my lap. We told her to push. She was a fighter.
The employees knew what to do, they were all parents themselves.
“We are all mothers, so we understood everything,” the manager said of herself and her employees, Sha'kerria Kaigler and Keisha Blue-Murray.
“All we needed from a dad was to catch a child. And he did it,” Woodward said.
“Yes, it jumped right into my arms,” Phillips said.
At some point in the delivery, Worthy bit Woodward on the hand.
In an interview, the manager joked that everything was fine, "she didn't break my skin."
Miraculously, less than 15 minutes later, the couple's "little nugget" was born. It only took a few labors for the baby, Nandi Aria Moremi Phillips, to be born, according to the restaurant staff.
"Oh my God, I still can't believe how this happened," Worthy said.
The little girl's parents said they believe it was "divine intervention" that led them to McDonald's that day to women who were willing to help.
McDonald's, their child's birthplace, gave the baby the nickname.
“I said we'll call her Little Nuggets. That's her nickname: McDonald's Little Nuggets,” said the mother of the newborn.
“She’s definitely a Nugget,” Phillips agreed. “My parents also liked this nickname. We thought, okay, this suits her. My Little Nugget."
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The incident received media attention both in Georgia and across the country. Franchise owner Steve Akinborough also found out about him.
As a thank you for the hard work of his employees, Akinborough gave each of them a $250 gift card.
Woodward said she plans to spend some of the money on the newborn.
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