Not just fast food; baby comes quickly at Atlanta McDonald’s

ATLANTA – Sure, they’ve nicknamed the child “Nugget,” after a girl delivered a lady at an Atlanta McDonald’s.

Alandria Worthy tells WXIA-TV that her labor was intensifying and her fiancé was driving her to the hospital Wednesday morning after they stopped so she might use the toilet on the quick meals restaurant.

“I went into the toilet and my water broke instantly,” Worthy stated.

Worthy stated she began screaming. Restaurant supervisor Tunisia Woodward went to see what was occurring.

“I open this door, didn’t see anybody, however I noticed ft (beneath the door),” Woodward stated. “I opened, and she or he was on this rest room mendacity again, screaming. Then I knew to inform my crew, ‘We’re having a child at this time.’”

Woodward and two employees started to assist. The fiancé, Deandre Phillips, got here in to test what was taking so lengthy, solely to seek out Worthy giving start.

“I used to be attempting to calm her down as a result of she was frantic,” Phillips stated. “I used to be like, ‘Simply breathe.’ I obtained her on the ground, and I took off my garments. The women at McDonald’s had been at her entrance facet, holding her palms, I had her ft propped up on my knees. We informed her to push three pushes. She was a fighter.”

Lower than fifteen minutes later, Nandi Ariyah Moremi Phillips was born.

“Oh, my God, it’s nonetheless loopy that it occurred,” Worthy stated.

“Sure, she popped out onto my hand,” Phillips stated.

The dad and mom inform the TV station “divine intervention” introduced them to McDonald’s the place three ladies might assist.

“All of us are moms and so we put our heads collectively and all we wanted daddy to do was catch the child. And he did,” Woodward stated of herself and her coworkers, Sha’querria Kaigler and Keisha Blue-Murray.

Though the child’s start certificates reads “Nandi Ariyah Moremi Phillips,” the McDonald’s crew gave the child woman one other identify.

“I stated, we’re going to call her Little Nugget. That’s her nickname: McDonald’s Little Nugget,” Woodward stated.

That nickname could stick.

“She’s positively a nugget,” Phillips agreed. “My dad and mom cherished the identify, too. We had been like, okay, it suits her. My little nugget.”

Steve Akinboro, who owns the franchise, awarded the staff $250 reward playing cards. Woodward stated she’ll spend all the cash on Nandi.