TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — An Arizona highway trooper getting ready to cite a speeding driver instead wound up helping a woman in another car who delivered a baby boy on the side of the road. 
 
 This photo taken Saturday, Nov. 14, 2015 and provided by Courtney Benavidez, Benavidez takes a selfie while holding her newborn after giving birth in a car on the side of the road near Bisbee, Ariz. Benavidez’... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this photo provided by the Arizona Department of Public Safety, Trooper Miguel Rincon, left, holding Benavidez's newborn son Carter Jett, poses for a photo with Courtney Benavidez and her husband,... (Associated Press) 
 
 Trooper Miguel Rincon was conducting a traffic stop Saturday on a highway near the southern Arizona town of Bisbee when a car pulled up behind him. The driver told Rincon that her granddaughter was about to give birth and that they needed an ambulance. 
 
 But the baby couldn't wait. 
 
 Courtney Benavidez gave birth in the car. The baby was out before Rincon even had time to run over to her. 
 
 He let the speeding driver go. 
 
 Benavidez named the boy Carter Jett, a reference to how quickly he was born. 
 
 She was in labor for only about an hour and a half. He grandmother was driving her to the hospital, but Benavidez couldn't make it. The women pulled over when they saw the trooper's patrol car. 
 
 "I was just in shock, and I couldn't believe it," Benavidez told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I think I went pale." 
 
 Rincon, a seven-year veteran with the Arizona Department of Public Safety, said he stayed calm and handed Benavidez a blanket for the baby. An ambulance arrived and took mom and infant to the hospital. 
 
 They were released the next day and are in good health. 
 
 "I'm just absolutely thankful and blessed because things could have gone down south very quickly, and I'm just thankful that everything turned out OK," Benavidez said. 
 
 Rincon said he doesn't have medical training to deliver a baby, but his instincts kicked in as he ran to get a blanket for the newborn. 
 
 "The only training I can say is I do have three kids of my own, so that kind of makes me a little familiar with the process," he said. 
 
 Benavidez, a third-grade teacher, said she was shocked by how quickly things moved. Her 4-year-old daughter was born after 12 hours of labor, and she wasn't expecting such a speedy delivery. 
 
 "It's very surreal how it happened, but I'm so thankful that everything turned out OK and we're all OK," she said. ||||| “This is definitely No. 1 for me as far as surprise factor,” Trooper Miguel Rincon said. (Source: Arizona Department of Public Safety) 
 
 A state trooper said he just happened to be in the right place at the right time Saturday, Nov. 14 when an expectant mother was about to give birth on the side of the road. 
 
 
 
 A car pulled up behind Trooper Miguel Rincon on State Route 80 outside Bisbee and a woman ran up to him saying that she was rushing her granddaughter to the hospital. 
 
 Courtney Benavidez said she called her grandmother for a ride to the hospital after her water broke. 
 
 Adrian Borquez, her husband, was in Phoenix for the night because no one expected a baby for another two weeks. 
 
 But that expectation changed once Benavidez climbed in her grandmother’s car on the way to the hospital. 
 
 Baby Carter was on his way regardless of the setting. 
 
 “I just knew there was no stopping him coming,” Benavidez said. “So he made his debut and came on the side of the road.” 
 
 Rincon said he left the traffic stop he was tending to at the time and ran to his car to call for medics and grab some gloves and blankets. By the time he returned to the car, Rincon found Benavidez already holding her newborn. 
 
 “Everything happened so quickly that there wasn’t really time to think about much,” he said. 
 
 So quickly, in fact, that Borquez said it helped the family decide on a middle name for their son. Down to two options, Mom and Dad decided on “Jet” because of Carter’s speedy arrival. 
 
 “I think Jet was very appropriate,” joked Benavidez. 
 
 Rincon wrapped the baby boy in blankets and cared for him and his mother until medics arrived on scene. 
 
 Both are doing fine and were discharged the next day from Canyon Vista Medical Center in Sierra Vista. 
 
 A certified peace officer with DPS since 2008, Rincon said this is his best experience since joining the force. 
 
 “You’re always thinking criminal activity,” he said. “This is definitely No. 1 for me as far as surprise factor.” 
 
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She complained of a sore back and when she got home, she thought a bath might help her pain.As she talked to her husband on the phone, Staine said her pain was becoming unbearable. Her husband called an ambulance.During the emergency room examination, Staine and her husband were stunned to learn medical staff had detected a fetal heartbeat. She was whisked to the delivery room and in what she said seemed like 5 minutes later, her daughter was born. She weighed 6 pounds, 6 ounces, and was 18.9 inches long.Born about 5 weeks early, the Staines named their little girl Mira — short for Miracle. ( Source Gaynor Rzepka had no idea she was pregnant – until she gave birth on the toilet. The 25-year-old was at her parents' house in Llantwit Major, Glamorgan, when she awoke with a sharp pain in the early hours of February 16 2014.Thinking she needed the toilet, Gaynor went to the bathroom but instead gave birth. Little Olly-James weighed 2.9kg (6lb 5oz) and was perfectly healthy.Gaynor insists she had no idea about the pregnancy, claiming she continued to have periods and experienced little weight gain throughout. She continued her job at a supermarket in Cowbridge, completing a ten-hour shift the day before she gave birth, and even ran the Cardiff Half Marathon five months into her pregnancy.She added, with hindsight, that the only clue to her pregnancy was a craving for Mars bars, which she usually hates. ( Source The dispatcher in Kimball County, Nebraska who took the emergency call recognized the address before she recognized the voice of her nephew, Anthony Kuhns. He was asking for an ambulance because his fiancée had just delivered a baby at home. The response from the dispatcher was "Dakota's not pregnant."Anthony and Dakota didn't know she was pregnant either. Hard to believe, until you hear their version of events.Dakota had complained of back pain, but she was in a car crash a couple of years before and has to sit for extended periods of time at work. She was feeling ill in the fall. When her boss suggested she might be expecting, she took a pregnancy test and it came back negative. She took a second one a month later. It was also negative.A couple of months later, she was feeling very tired and experienced some stomach pains. Anthony told her rest to on the couch. It was on that couch that Dakota gave birth to their son. Anthony helped with the delivery and called 911.Paramedics arrived and transported the baby to the hospital in Kimball. Able James was born at just 29 weeks. His oxygen levels were low, but he's made quick improvements. ( Source Roxana Rodriguez, a Salvadoran nun, gave birth in Italy in January 2014, claiming she had absolutely no idea she was pregnant. She said she was in her convent in Campomoro when she felt stomach cramps and was rushed to a hospital in the nearby city of Rieti. She ended up giving birth to a boy.The 31-year-old nun named her son Francis, which also happens to be the name of the current Pope.Apparently she got pregnant when she went to El Salvador to get her passport renewed. Her fellow nuns back at the “Little Disciples of Jesus” convent said they were “very surprised” about all this. And the convent's mother superior, Sister Erminia, said, “It seems she was not able to resist temptation.” You said it, Sister. ( Source 1 A 45-year-old French woman says she had no idea she was pregnant until her baby literally popped out while she was on holiday at a ski resort in the Alps in February 2014.The new mother, named only as Karine, was at the Val Thorens ski resort on holiday with her family when she rushed to the bathroom because she was not feeling well. However she soon realized it wasn't a case of stomach flu.Incredibly, within 15 minutes of the first pain she had given birth to a healthy baby girl. The couple already had two children, but it had been 12 years since the birth of the youngest.Quick thinking on the part of the father allowed for the birth to go as well as it did. When the dad-to-be realized this was not just a case of cramps, he grabbed his brother and sister-in-law who were sleeping in an adjacent room.After a brief assessment his sister-in-law, a trained prenatal nurse, realized the pains were contractions and even spotted the tiny head of the child beginning to emerge from her mother. She delivered the baby before paramedics even arrived. ( Source In 2006, 17-year-old Pamela Vugts, a junior fighter from Den Bosch, was rushed to the hospital following a kickboxing match, only to give birth to a healthy baby girl.Unbeknownst to Pamela, or her opponent, the youngster was seven months pregnant when she entered the ring. Following a kick to the stomach, the fighter began bleeding, triggering her trip to the emergency ward.Neither Pamela nor her parents were aware she was pregnant, despite the fact she was 17 lbs overweight. According to reports, her stomach looked large and her belly button was sticking out in the ring. ( Source Most mothers have months to prepare for a child, but Danielle Miller had just minutes.In 2007, 16 year old Miller was working the nightshift at the McDonald's in Vancouver, WA when she suddenly ran into the restroom feeling ill. Her co-worker, Jaynae Herrera ran in after her. Herrera asked Miller if she was okay, but something was definitely wrong. Miller was in pain and shaking. To her shock, she was giving birth to a baby, right over the toilet.Jaynae called 911 and with the assistance of a dispatcher, helped deliver the baby. One of the first things the dispatcher said to do when the baby was delivered was to get the baby out of the toilet. Miller had a six-pound baby boy and named him Austin. ( Source Nadia Watson woke up with what she thought were period pains but then collapsed on the bathroom floor of her Weston-super-mare home and went into labor. The confused 22-year-old screamed as she delivered 7lbs 11oz baby Poppy all by herself as partner Lewis McSweeney dozed throughout the one hour ordeal in the next room.Her screaming didn't wake her partner but certainly alarmed the neighbors who called police. Police cars and ambulances arrived minutes after the birth.Ms Watson said her boyfriend, 22, initially went back to sleep when she presented their newborn daughter. However when he woke again he was shocked to realize just what had happened.She also said she had no clue that she was pregnant and remained a size 10 throughout her pregnancy. She had and only put on a bit of weight. ( Source An unsuspected 21-year-old woman was heading to the hospital for what she thought was a stomach ailment, but the pain was so unbearable that she didn't make it. She soon found out however, that she was pregnant and gave birth to a baby boy in the front yard of her New Jersey home.Thankfully, Barnegat Township Police officers Vinnie Damiano and Michael Moore arrived at the home a short time later. Damiano says the baby, who appeared to be about three months premature, was not breathing. They delicately performed CPR on the boy, revived him and helped an ambulance crew clear his airway before he was brought to the hospital. ( Source
– Miguel Rincon was trying to settle up a speeding violation Saturday on a highway outside Bisbee, Ariz., when things went in a totally unexpected direction. A car pulled up behind him, and the driver told Rincon that her granddaughter was about to give birth, the AP reports. But Courtney Benavidez couldn't wait for an ambulance—that baby was coming right there in her car. Rincon alerted medics and rushed back to his patrol car to get gloves and blankets, per KSAZ. But by the time he returned to the pregnant mom, she was no longer pregnant. Little Carter Jett—so named for his super-speedy entrance—had arrived. "I just knew there was no stopping him coming," Benavidez tells Tucson News Now, explaining that her husband was out of town because the baby wasn't due for another two weeks. "He made his debut … on the side of the road." As for Rincon, he tells the AP he's had no official training in birthing babies, but "I do have three kids of my own, so that kind of makes me a little familiar with the process." He also let the speeding driver go. (At least she knew the baby was on its way—this Massachusetts woman had no clue.)