Army Specialist Brooks Lindsey rushed from training in Texas to Mississippi after<\/p>\n
learning his daughter would arrive early.<\/p>\n
A delayed connecting flight in Dallas meant he would miss the birth.<\/p>\n
As his wife Haley went into labor, Brooks waited on the airport floor in uniform.<\/p>\n
His mother-in-law secretly FaceTimed him from the delivery room,<\/p>\n
and the doctor allowed him to watch the birth live.<\/p>\n
Surrounded by strangers, Brooks witnessed his daughter\u2019s arrival on his phone.<\/p>\n
When the baby cried, the gate erupted in cheers.<\/p>\n
From the delivery room, the doctor shouted,<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t let him board the flight! She\u2019s here! She\u2019s here!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Brooks flew on after the birth and reached the hospital that evening.<\/p>\n Holding his daughter, he whispered,<\/p>\n \u201cWow\u2026 I can\u2019t believe we just had a baby!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n Four days later, he deployed\u2014but not before being exactly where he needed to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Race Against Time Army Specialist Brooks Lindsey rushed from training in Texas to Mississippi after learning his daughter would arrive early. A delayed connecting flight in Dallas meant he would miss the birth. An Unexpected Solution As his wife Haley went into labor, Brooks waited on the airport floor in uniform. His mother-in-law secretly…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1500,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1499"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1499\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usanews1.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Home at Last<\/h3>\n