OGDEN — Tiana Hutter always planned to give birth to her second child naturally — and boy did she ever.

“It was as natural as you can get,” said her husband, Keegan, who delivered the baby in their car at Browning Park, two blocks away from their home in Shadow Valley.

On July 21, Tiana began having some light labor pains, so the couple drove to McKay-Dee Hospital.

“We were there for a couple of hours and they discharged us because she wasn’t quite to the point to where she needed to be,” Keegan said.

In fact, Tiana said the nurse told them while she wasn’t quite ready to have the baby yet, she fully expected to see them back at the hospital the next morning.

“We went home and I settled in around midnight, then I woke up around 2 in the morning and I was in full blown labor,” Tiana said. “My water broke in the driveway as I was getting into the car. And as we were headed to the hospital, the baby started coming. We had to pull over.”

So they pulled into the parking lot of Browning Park, which is next to Shadow Valley Elementary School.

“So much was happening so fast. I was on the phone with the dispatcher and she was telling me everything to do,” Keegan said. “I mean, I had no idea what I was doing. It was like a movie cliche.”

Paramedics arrived shortly after the baby was born and bundled the family up and took them to the hospital.

“We were all in the room talking about what we were going to name him. We were always going to name him Finnean, but we weren’t settled on a middle name yet,” Tiana said. “Then my father in-law suggested Browning because he was born at Browning Park. We both said, ‘We love it.'”

The couple said even though the events moved quickly, they also moved very smoothly.

“In my head, I was just thinking, ‘Well, here we go,’ and everything just was calm,” Tiana said. “The 911 dispatcher kept her cool and was so calm and reassuring and when the paramedics got there they said we did everything right and they were just so comforting and helpful. I never was scared.”

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