A Cressona woman made her own history during the weekend snowstorm.
Dana Davis, 32, gave birth to a 6 pound 12 ounce, 19 inch boy at home instead of at the hospital, where deliveries usually occur.
“I still can’t believe I had him at home,” Davis said of her son, Ethan Michael Mountz, who was born at 7:01 a.m. Sunday.
Davis said she was not expecting him so soon and that she was given different due dates, Feb. 8 and Feb. 14. Some doctors even said she could go into labor this month.
She was getting up from going to the bathroom and going into the room of her son, Derek Jr., to put away laundry when she knew something was wrong. Her water broke and a short time later she was in pain.
“I couldn’t move. I couldn’t move whatsoever,” she said.
She tried calling for her husband, who was sleeping, but to no avail. She was in so much pain she couldn’t even scream.
Her thoughts were ones of surprise that she was going to give birth at home.
“Oh my God. Oh my God. I’m having a baby,” she said as she sat on her son’s bed who was sleeping in another room after getting up to watch TV earlier in the night. Her husband, Derek Mountz, 32, eventually woke up and came into the room.
He could not believe what he was seeing.
“Hold him in and suck it up,” she recalled him saying so they could get to the hospital.
She told him that was not going to happen. She said her labor was quick, lasting fewer than 20 minutes.
“I think I pushed maybe one or two times,” she said.
An ambulance was called and took her to Schuylkill Medical Center-South Jackson Street. She said ambulance personnel and a firefighter lifted her over a snow bank to a waiting ambulance, which had no problems going through the snow Sunday.
Both of her children, Derek and Hannah, 2, know they have a baby brother. Davis said she did not get a lot of sleep since the birth of Ethan.