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I DO BEATS STORK
Couple marries while bride is in labor at DHM
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Newlyweds Remedia and Kevin Craighead are shown with their son Sebastian Blake Craighead. At right is Doctors Hospital of Manteca OB volunteer Judy Lowder. - photo by GLENN KAHL/The Bulletin
It was a first in the 55-year history of Doctors Hospital of Manteca.A couple had planned to get married Wednesday but their son — who wasn’t due to enter the world for two weeks — wouldn’t wait.So Kevin and Remedia Craighead were wed Tuesday night while she was in labor saying “I do” less than an hour before Sebastian Blake Craighead entered the world at 10:30 p.m.Their son weighed in at 6-pounds-9-ounces and measured 19-inches long. . Brother Al Deardorff officiated while the couple’s mothers — Rosemarie Craighead and Karen Grissom were on hand to witness the wedding and the birth minutes later — as were Remedia’s sisters Jennifer and Carley Davenport. Nurse Carol Devers said another patient down the hall donated a vase of red and yellow roses to add to the ambiance as the couple was exchanging their vows.