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Video of soldier watching wife give birth via Facetime goes viral

"Don’t let him board the flight! She’s here! She’s here!"

Soldier watches birth of daughter via Facetime00:03:29

Soldier watches birth of daughter via Facetime

An image of an American soldier, watching the birth of his daughter on Facetime is going viral after it was shared on social media.

The animated face of Specialist Brooks Lindsey, glued to his phone, as he watches the magical moment captures the sheer beauty of human life.

Brooks, from Mississippi, US, was attempting to travel home on Saturday after he was alerted that his wife had gone into labour.

However, when his flight was unexpectedly delayed, he became stranded at the airport and had to watch the birth of his daughter, Millie Fritz Anne Lindsey, on FaceTime.


Specialist Brooks Lindsey. Source: Supplied

Hearts breaking 

The image of the soldier sitting on the ground of Dallas-Fort Worth airport was shared to Facebook by a delighted fellow passenger Tracey Dover.

"This Army soldier was on my delayed flight home yesterday to MS," Ms Dover wrote.



Crowd cheered

His happy wife, Haley explained to Love What Matters that the hospital wanted to induce her two weeks early because the baby was under stress.  Her husband was in the process of being sent home for the birth when her waters broke, just three hours before Lindsey arrived at the airport to board his flight.

In a stroke of luck his flight which was scheduled to take off from Dallas at 3.55pm was delayed to 5.45pm. 

“Without that delay Brooks would have been in the air and unable to FaceTime!” she explained.

Brooks was telling me it was okay, and I was doing so good and I heard him wincing and saying 'wow!' through my pushes. I could hear people in the airport talking and cheering!

Brooks then went on to say that they were making him board and needed to get off as soon as she started to crown and all I remember was my Doctor screaming 'Don’t let him board the flight! She’s here! She’s here!' So, the airport personnel let him sit there and watch till it was over.

“When he walked in at 7.20 it was just Millie and me. He picked her up and held her for five minutes and kept saying ‘wow I can’t believe we just had a baby’”