Legend Carmello Warren was also born in the same room that her mother was. Courtesy of Emoni Wise
Wise delivered a healthy baby boy July 14 in Delivery Room 4 at Catholic Health Mercy Hospital in Rockville Centre, with OB-GYN Dr. Jay Seraji overseeing the big event.
But it was never planned for the veteran physician, who has been practicing 29 years, to deliver little Legend Carmello Warren, Wise said.
Wise, who is on maternity leave from her job at T-Mobile, was seeing a female doctor in Seraji’s office towards the end of her pregnancy, but baby Legend came earlier than his July 25 due date and that physician was on vacation.
“We were originally supposed to be in another room,” Wise recalled. “And then we went into the room and my mom was like, ‘Why does this room look so familiar?’ and Dr. Seraji was like, ‘Because [Wise] was born in here.'”
Wise started seeing Seraji when she was 14, not knowing he was the man who had delivered her.
Carmella Warren-Wise holding her daughter Emoni Mercy Hospital It wasn’t planned for Dr. Seraji to deliver Legend. Courtesy of Emoni Wise
“That’s when my mom actually told me the story because I didn’t even know for a really long time,” she said. “I didn’t know he was the actual doctor that delivered me.”
Legend’s middle name is Carmello, after his grandmother, and Wise chose to give the baby the surname Warren, in honor of her late grandfather, Clarence Warren Junior, a US Army veteran and tank sharpshooter who served in Germany during the Vietnam era.
“Him and I were really close,” Wise said of her grandfather. “He passed away when I was in the fifth grade. So I decided to keep his legacy going because he [Legend] is the only boy.”
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