{"id":17814,"date":"2012-11-01T15:25:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17814"},"modified":"2012-11-01T15:25:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T19:25:52","slug":"mom-calls-birth-on-i-275-amazing-and-blessed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=17814","title":{"rendered":"Mom Calls Birth On I-275 \u2018Amazing And Blessed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once <strong>Mrs. Candace Crossley <\/strong>went into labor at her Wesley Chapel home, things happened quickly. Within a very short time, she, her husband, <strong>Clenton Crossley,<\/strong> her 2-year-old daughter, <strong>Cayla,<\/strong> and older sister, <strong>Ms. Chrystal Bussey,<\/strong> were in the car en route to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Her due date was November 15<sup>th<\/sup>. However, as the labor pains began to come closer together, <strong>Mrs. Crossley<\/strong> realized they weren\u2019t going to make it to the hospital. Her husband pulled the car over to the side of the road and she said, <strong>Ms. Bussey<\/strong> went around to the front passenger side as the 9-1-1 dispatcher gave instructions over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad my sister was there. We stayed calm and we all had a part to play,\u201d <strong>Mrs. Crossley<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>Within five minutes, <strong>Catelyn Crossley<\/strong> made her debut into the world. She weighs 5 pounds, 13 ounces and is a healthy addition to the family.<\/p>\n<p>Once emergency personnel arrived, mother and daughter were transported to St. Joseph\u2019s Women\u2019s Hospital. Both are doing well.<\/p>\n<p>Of the birth that is unique is more than one way, <strong>Mrs. Crossley <\/strong>said, \u201cIt was amazing and I feel blessed because so many things could have gone wrong. But it didn\u2019t and she\u2019s just perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A Tampa native, <strong>Mrs. Crossley<\/strong> graduated from Hillsborough High School in 2004. She\u2019s a stay-at-home wife and mother.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if she plans on having more children, she said no, and that her husband is \u201cfine with two girls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far as her daughter being born on Halloween, <strong>Mrs. Crossley<\/strong> said, \u201cIt\u2019s just something freaky that happened on Halloween.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor Once Mrs. Candace Crossley went into labor at her Wesley Chapel home, things happened quickly. Within a very short time, she, her husband, Clenton Crossley, her 2-year-old daughter, Cayla, and older sister, Ms. Chrystal Bussey, were in the car en route to the hospital. Her due date was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}