Iowa Doctor Drives ATV into Snowstorm to Deliver Baby — and Arrives Just in Time!

Mar. 15, 2025

Shenandoah Medical Center

“Thank you for the dedication to our patients, Dr. Brown! (And a pretty fun story for the proud new parents to share for years!!!)," the post added.

“Floods, rain, storms. Sure better than taking a horse into town, right?” he told the outlet.

Per 6 News WOWT, Gardner was having a scheduled cesarean section, andpregnancycomplications meant that she needed to undergo the procedure that day.

“I knew that it just needed to be done,” Krystal’s husband Craig told the outlet. “That I’d do whatever it’d take to get her up to the hospital so we could have her.”

“It was just anxiety until we got here and started seeing everybody come in,” continued Krystal, adding of Birkley’s arrival, “It was just one relief after another relief through the whole morning.”

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Iowa, likemuch of the U.S., has been facing severe winter weather. On the day of Birkey’s arrival, the National Weather Service Des Moines described driving conditions as “treacherous” in apost shared on X, formerly known as Twitter.

source: people.com