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Wednesday, February 15, 2006
A.M. News Briefs Two mothers deliver babies at home. Talk about a love-related Valentine's Day story. Alethia Armstrong and Toni Brown, both of Philadelphia, wound up sharing the same room at a local hospital after having their babies at their separate homes, according to a WPVI-TV (Ch. 6) report. A 911 dispatcher talked Brown and her boyfriend's mom through the delivery around 8 a.m. Alethia Armstrong had her son Franklin with "her husband and brother panicking around her," just as the paramedics arrived, the story says.
