Cleveland Cavaliers guard Iman Shumpert helps deliver his wife's baby using only a pair of headphones
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Your support makes all the difference.Iman Shumpert and his fiancee, R&B artist Teyana Taylor, got the surprise of their life early Wednesday morning when their daughter, Junie, came busting into the world.
There wasn’t time to get to a hospital, as Taylor tells the story on Instagram, so the Cleveland Cavaliers player, with the guidance of a 911 operator, got his biggest assist ever, delivering his own daughter in the couple’s bathroom. Taylor’s version of events is wildly “MacGyver”-esque — he used a pair of red headphones to tie the umbilical cord — and sweet. “She opened her eyes right away, gazed into mine and never cried!” Taylor writes. The ambulance arrived shortly after the birth.
"On Dec 16th at 6:42am in our bathroom Junie decided she wanted to take her first breath into this world. She came out as a wonderful surprise to everyone! Not knowing I was in labor until I felt her head…it took two ten count pushes with my fiancé playing Dr and she entered this world into his bare hands! Eyes full of tears and barely able to speak to the emergency operator @imanshumpert tied a pair of red headphones around the umbilical cord and the ambulance made there grand entrance 5 min later. She opened her eyes right away, gazed into mine and never cried! He handed her to me wrapped in our bath towel and wiped her face for me to see what LOVE really is. She has blown Christmas away! Our family is complete. Her blueprint will be unmatched. Welcome Iman Tayla Shumpert Jr. Mommy carried you. Daddy delivered you. #MeetTheParents we love you baby girl."
Judging by the photo, little Junie looks none the worse for the experience.
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