The couple left the Florence storm zone a few hours before the twins were born.
'17.09.2018'
Source: CBS News
The family of servicemen left the tropical storm Florent's active zone right before becoming parents of newborn twins. Daniel Digregorio was nine months pregnant when she and her husband left the Lejun Marine Corps Base in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Daniel was very worried that she could not get medical care because of the hurricane. Therefore, she and her husband Nicholas saw two scenarios: to give birth to twins in the midst of a hurricane, or to move to St. Augustine, Florida, where their parents live, as soon as possible. And they decided to go south, wrote CBS News.
“The journey was very stressful,” says Nicholas. "But he also brought relief as we got closer to home."
Usually such a journey took them eight hours. This time they rode twelve.
“When we got into the car, I really prayed that we would make the right choice, so that everything would just fall into place, it would be safe, and our children would be okay,” says Daniel.
Children were born less than 24 hours after arriving in St. Augustine. Shortly after the onset of labor, Scarlett and Sadie Digregorio were born, twins who had already experienced their first storm in their lives.
"The birth was going to be called on September 18, but they were born a week earlier," says Daniel. “The doctor thinks it's because of the hurricane. But I have a feeling that this is the lasagna that I ate that night. Who knows what the matter is ... I think they were just ready to come into the world. "
And they were born, surrounded by a loving family, which would not be near, stay a couple at a military base in the middle of a hurricane.
“I had to be a part of it all, so I just feel overwhelmed and blessed,” admits Daniela's mom Dana.
“It turned my life around a bit, but I wouldn't change anything,” says Daniel.
Digregorio plans to return to North Carolina in the next two weeks, now as a large family of four people.
