Oct 13, 2009 1:24 pm US/Central
TV Anchor Gives Birth On Eisenhower
CHICAGO (AP) ―
Judy Hsu, co-anchor of ABC-owned WLS-Channel 7's morning show, gave birth early Tuesday morning to a baby boy, Alexander James, in a car parked along the Eisenhower Expressway.
After Hsu went into labor around 3 a.m., she and her husband Tracy immediately departed their home west of the city for Northwestern Memorial Hospital, but soon realized they would be unable to make it to the hospital in time.
So the couple pulled over on the expressway at the Cicero exit, and Tracy delivered the baby, who already has been given the nickname "Ike" after the road on which he was born.
Hsu's long tenure on WLS's morning show apparently came in handy during the unusual birth. Tracy recalled a segment on the show about another couple who successfully delivered a child on the roadside. In that segment, the husband used shoelaces to tie off the mother's umbilical cord, and Tracy did likewise. The procedure worked perfectly.
Paramedics subsequently took Hsu and her new boy to Northwestern, where they are doing fine.
"Can you believe it? It's so wild," Hsu said on the station's 11 a.m. news broadcast. "It's something we read about in the news but I never, ever thought this would happen to me. It just went so fast. It was pretty incredible."
Alexander James is Judy and Tracy's fourth child.
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