The El Parian Neighborhood Market and Carniceria is not a place anyone expects a baby to be born but that is what happened Tuesday night.
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Store surveillance cameras at El Parian Neighborhood Market and Carniceria in Fresno show the pregnant woman walking into the store. She is shopping, but then goes to a table and kneels.
"We had this lady here who came in to buy a soda, and then she told the cashier to call the ambulance," store owner Issimar Sepulveda said.
Store employees started calling 911 but said nobody answered.
"So then I started listening to her screaming so then I came to the carniceria and then I was like what's going on. She was right there like bending, 'oh my God, oh my God I am having my baby,'" said Sepulveda.
Within just a couple of minutes the baby came out.
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"And then it happened so quickly everything happened so quickly," said Sepulveda.
Then the butcher took off his apron, and caught the baby and she cut the cord.
Sepulveda, a mother of two babies thought the child did not look right.
The baby was purple and I was like why was he purple, what's going on and I was so worried praying God oh my God, help me, for you know, for the health of this baby," said Sepulveda.
A store employee ran home to get a suction syringe to clear the baby's airway. They kept the child warm until the ambulance arrived.
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Facebook postings by a store employee show the baby being taken by paramedics.
The mother and child went to a nearby hospital. Sepulveda is still overwhelmed by what happened in her little store.
"It is feeling the happiness but you are worried, nervous, panicked, I don't know, so many things at once.
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