Woman delivers her own baby in hotel room with the help of YouTube
Every so often Twitter will produce a first-person thread so hilarious, awe-inspiring or shocking that it’ll go viral.
One such thread is the tale of Tia Williams and her incredible childbirth story, which she decided to share with her followers – even before she shared it with her own mother.
Tia explains that it all started when she found out she was pregnant in her third trimester. The 22-year-old didn’t know she was pregnant as her contraception already stopped her periods, so a late one wasn’t an indicator. On top of that, she didn’t gain any weight.
“My dumbass was like maybe it’ll just go away…” she said, explaining she was in total denial about the whole thing.
And that’s where he story starts, as told via magnificent GIFs…
So I had already purchased tickets for a vacay in Germany and ya girl was not about to waste international flight money. So I was like if the boy comes on time I should be all good in the hood. So I came home for two seconds before hopping on the my flight to Germany. pic.twitter.com/SWYOpatnEN
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
Visiting a friend in Istanbul, Tia boarded her flight before suspecting she had come down with food poisoning when stomach cramps ensued.
No I don’t know if it was he salmon, the flight, or it was just my time but out of no where I start cramping up. I’ve still got like an hour left before we land. I just knew I had food poisoning. Y’all I was HURT pic.twitter.com/WBgWcG0NkU
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
Brushing off the pain, Tia soon arrived in the country and headed to her hotel room which is when she realised it was serious…
I make it to my hotel & now I’m sure I’m in labor. There is no way in the world I’m not in labor because I can barely standup at this point. So I’m in a foreign country, where no one speaks english, I don’t know this country’s emergency number, & I have no clue what to do. pic.twitter.com/sk6k10zdu5
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
Realising she was in labour and would have to deliver her own baby, Tia consulted the World Wide Web for advice…
So in true millennial form I decided to @Youtube it . If no one else had my back the internet would! So here my ass is in my hotel room all by my lonesome learning how to deliver my own baby pic.twitter.com/v13ZhF6O8h
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
After a quick browse on YouTube, she knew it was time to start the delivery.
So yo it’s GAME TIME. I don’t have time to be nervous. It’s time to get shit done. I spring into action. Filling up the tub with warm water #WaterBirth, grabbing a towel to bite down on, grabbing another towel to wrap him/her up with whenever it pops out pic.twitter.com/PVu2SWLCiG
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
Preparing the bath in her hotel for a water birth, Tia clenched her teeth around a towel as she battled contractions.
My contractions were already at a minute a part lol I was late as hell. I BARELY made it to my room. so I throw the towel in my mouth and start pushing. And I have NEVVVVEEERRRR felt any pain like this in my life. I felt like I was being split open. WHERE WAS MY EPIDURAL?! pic.twitter.com/HGlootcNHu
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
Then it was time to push…
Luckily it happened pretty quickly. I only had to push about 5-6x before a baby popped out. Lol now let me tell you babies are buoyant. That little joker said bloop and floated right on up to the top of the water pic.twitter.com/IuqwKXFb2L
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
After the delivery, Tia still had to birth the placenta.
So finally it feels like I’m having another contraction and I assume this is the placenta ready to drop it like it’s hot. So I shuffle to the bathroom and sit down on the toilet because idk where else to go pic.twitter.com/UpGTANtLnh
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
Almost immediately as I sit down it plops out. The hotel had these sanitation baggies in the bathroom so I just picked it up by the cord and dropped it in the bag. Now it’s still attached to him so now I’ve got to google how to cut an umbilical cord. pic.twitter.com/urJHrIu9mN
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 24, 2018
The next step was cutting the umbilical cord. She didn’t have any clamps in her hotel room so she decided to sterilise some shoe laces on a hot kettle, tied up the cord and cut it with a knife.
Ingenious.
When I get there the airport workers are freaking out bc you can tell this baby is fresh. I legit didn’t have any baby clothes & made him something out of my favorite blue oversized button down (RIP ). Anyway they thought I was a human trafficker trying to smuggle out a baby. pic.twitter.com/dc0BCDv75J
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 25, 2018
Instead of going to hospital, Tia slept in overnight at her hotel with her baby and headed to the airport the next day.
But when she arrived, the staff were (natch) confused…
So they called in customs, the police, a doctor & a nurse (to check the baby & me to see if I actually gave birth), and the airline higher ups. I was bombarded with questions (naturally) but finally I proved that I wasn’t a trafficker. During this I called the @USEmbassyTurkey. pic.twitter.com/HH9zQybcHB
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 25, 2018
When they finally discovered Tia wasn’t a human trafficker after calling the US Embassy, she was met by tons of press interested in her story.
Idk how they found out but someone tipped them off to my story and they had all the questions lol. If you google my name and Istanbul Turkey articles will pop up . It’s all in Turkish though so good luck with that lol ♀️
(These are the ladies who helped me) pic.twitter.com/JsHQEUjtMy
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 25, 2018
She was even thanked by Turkish Airlines with a rather handsome gift…
Because she was showing me the correct way to do it . Because I gave them so much publicity Turkish Airlines paid for my hotel stay for two weeks, comped all my meals, upgrade @BBills_ & my return flights to business class and we enjoyed the lavish business lounge. The end
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 25, 2018
Arriving home, Tia still refrained from telling her mum about the whole thing until Wednesday when she shared the story with her Twitter followers.
Here he is Xavier Ata Freeman born March 7, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey! My little surprise bundle of international joy!
(His middle name is Turkish) pic.twitter.com/HVlnvqEClQ
— Tia Freeman (@TheWittleDemon) April 25, 2018
If that’s not a badass baby delivery story, we don’t know what is.
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