Lauren Boebert once made the local news for delivering her third son in a pickup truck
Lauren Boebert for Congress
- Rep. Lauren Boebert has been making headlines for saying she'll be a "36-year-old grandmother."
- In 2009, she was in the local news for delivering her third son in a pickup truck.
- "Now that I think about it clearly, we should have left earlier," she wrote in her memoir.
Before Rep. Lauren Boebert made headlines for saying she'll be a "36-year-old grandmother," the Colorado Republican was in the local news for having her own baby in a pickup truck.
Boebert, who announced her 17-year-old son Tyler is about to have a son in April, explains how she delivered her third son, Kaydon, in her memoir "My American Life," released last year.
After two "drama-free" deliveries, Boebert wrote that she and her midwife decided she could wait an hour before making the 20-minute drive to the hospital. She regretted that decision.
"Now that I think about it clearly, we should have left earlier, but honestly, at that moment, there was no way of knowing what difference an hour would make," she wrote.
"Besides," she added, "I wanted time to make myself more presentable for our 'mom and baby' pictures."
So she showered and fixed her hair and makeup, waking up her husband Jayson an hour later. She left the room, and her husband returned to bed but then "reluctantly" got ready.
They left for the hospital in her husband's Ford F-250 "old and dirty gas and patch work truck," and she became concerned about her strong contractions. She questions whether she should have driven because her husband was driving "like an old lady."
Panicking, she told him to speed up. He did after her water broke.
"He pressed the accelerator as hard as it would go," she wrote. "Too late. The baby's head popped out."
She said she delivered Kaydon at just over eight pounds in the front cab of the pickup on an Interstate 70 off-ramp. She negotiated a 50 percent discount with the hospital since "nature and I" did the job, she wrote.
The delivery made the local newspapers. The Vail Daily in 2009 ran with the headline: "Silt couple discovers that childbirth can be one wild ride."