Pregnant Firefighter Helps Car Crash Victim While in Labor

Coming to the rescue of those in need before bringing a new life into the world is all in a day’s work for Megan Warfield.

The Maryland firefighter was 9-months pregnant when she was involved in a multi-car accident on her way home from a family event. After quickly assessing her own injuries and determining that she was okay, she leaped into action to help another woman whose car had been flipped over in the wreck.

“I started to climb in there with her, but then I was like, ‘What are you doing? You’re nine months pregnant,’” Warfield told TODAY Parents. “I ended up holding onto her to keep her in place because I wasn’t sure of her injuries at the time.”

Warfield sat with the woman the entire time, working to keep her calm until additional help arrived. That additional help just so happened to be the fire department that Warfield worked for—including her boyfriend, Joshua Daugherty. Daughterty, a firefighter as well, admitted he was a little thrown when he realized Warfield was in the accident.

“My general concern when I heard was, wow, she’s in an accident, and she’s pregnant and due in the next week or so. So we went ahead and got a medic to also check her out, at which point we agreed she should also be checked out at the hospital.”

Shortly after heading to Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore to get herself checked out, doctors told Warfield that the accident had induced labor and, unbeknownst to her, had knocked her unborn baby into a traverse — or sideways — position.

“I don’t know how I did what I did because the cramping was so bad,” Warfield said when asked how she was able to get down on the ground and help. “I must’ve just been running on adrenaline.”

Despite the early and unconventional start to her labor Warfield and Daugherty welcomed a healthy little girl named Charlotte to their family of four less than 24 hours after the crash. While Warfield will be taking some time off to spend with her darling baby girl, she admitted she won’t miss being stuck at the department’s administrative desk (where she had been assigned while pregnant). “I’ve been itching to get back out" she said. "It’s what I was meant to do.”