WICHITA FALLS ( KFDX/KJTL ) — What started out as a normal Wednesday at Cunningham Elementary quickly turned into a scene out of a TV show when the school principal and a teacher helped deliver a baby.

L.I.F.E teacher Ashley Strain was trying to urge paraprofessional Paige Lockstedt to go home after she said she hadn’t been feeling well when Lockstedt called her from the bathroom.

“Paige said she wasn’t feeling well, so I was trying to tell her to go home, and she started to walk to find [Principal] Simmons, and I was like, ‘No, I’ll find Simmons. You go home,'” Strain said. “She said, ‘Well, I’m going to go to the bathroom,’ and she called me and said, ‘My water just broke.'”

Once Lockstedt announced that her water had broken, the race against time was on. Strain and Principal Amy Simmons put Lockstedt in a wheelchair and took her to the school’s main entrance to wait for medical personnel to arrive.

The ambulance didn’t arrive in time, though, so Strain and Simmons were forced to spring into action.

“Ms. Strain and I ran into the bathroom with Ms. Paige, and she delivered a very beautiful baby girl,” Simmons said. “We don’t know exactly what time, but not long—maybe five or six minutes after we got the call that her water broke. So, it all happened very fast.”

After a short delivery process, first responders arrived and took control, leaving Strain and Simmons to go back about their days, knowing they had just helped deliver a baby. Looking back, they both had one word to describe the brief but life-changing experience.

“I don’t know, it just feels surreal,” Strain said. Simmons described the feeling in a similar way.

“Surreal is really the only word that I can come up with to describe the whole situation,” Simmons said. “Like, never in a million years did I ever think I would have to do that at school. And I did, and I’m just glad that they’re okay and that they’re healthy and that they’re well taken care of.”

Lockstedt’s baby arrived 10 weeks before her November due date. Her daughter came into the world weighing two pounds and nine ounces, so she will be in the NICU for a little while. But, after their sudden ordeal, both mother and daughter are safe and healthy.

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