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                                <p>HOUSTON, August 31, 2017 (<a href="https://www.lifesitenews.com/">LifeSiteNews</a>) &mdash; The birth of a long-awaited baby began just as her parents became trapped by flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey.</p>

<p>Annie and Greg Smith, both doctors, had recently moved to Houston from Virginia for advanced medical training. Annie, 32, had suffered two miscarriages before becoming pregnant a third time, and the couple had carefully planned the birth. It was scheduled for Sunday.</p>

<p>However, at about 8 a.m. Sunday, as the Smiths looked out of the window at the water now encircling their apartment building, Annie realized she was already in labor.</p>

<p>Between fruitless calls to 911 and the Texas National Guard, Greg, although a specialist in pediatric anaesthesiology, prepared to do a home birth. He collected household supplies such as scissors and needles and asked his visiting mom, Sue Chor, to sterilize them with boiling water.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>A neighbor dropped by to check on the couple and summoned more medical help via the building&rsquo;s social media network. Fifteen more medical trainees grabbed whatever instruments they had on hand and crowded into the Smiths&rsquo; apartment.</p>

<p>In the end, Annie got in touch with the director of her medical program, and the director&rsquo;s dad, who lived near a fire station, walked over to ask the firefighters for help.</p>

<p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/neighbors-form-human-chain-pregnant-woman-labor-wade/story?id=49489376">Greg told ABC News</a>, &ldquo;I was with Annie and I looked out the window and I saw this big truck come pulling up and I said, &lsquo;Holy cow &mdash; I think someone is here for us.&rsquo;&rdquo;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

<p>The rushing water outside was chest-height, and so the neighbors formed a human chain to get Annie and Greg safely onto the flatbed truck.</p>

<p>&ldquo;I just kind of held on to them one person at a time and crawled along their arms until the firemen helped me up the ladder onto the truck,&rdquo; Annie told ABC News. &ldquo;I was sitting on a fire hose in the back of the truck with a shower curtain over my head and looking at all the floodwater around us thinking &lsquo;This is so bizarre.&rsquo;&rdquo;</p>

<p>The couple arrived at Texas Children&rsquo;s Hospital 15 minutes later. Hospital staff, marooned by the flood at the hospital since Friday, were working alternate 12-hour shifts.</p>

<p>Baby Adrielle was born 12 hours later, at 1:59 a.m. on Monday morning. She weighed 7 pounds, &nbsp;6 ounces, and both mom and baby are doing well. Family members have nicknamed the girl &ldquo;the Hurricane&rdquo; and &ldquo;Baby Harvey.&rdquo;</p>

<p>&ldquo;We&rsquo;ve always wanted a little baby,&rdquo; <a href="http://people.com/human-interest/houston-neighbors-form-human-chain-to-help-pregnant-woman-labor/">Greg told <em>People </em>magazine</a>. When Annie didn&rsquo;t get pregnant soon after her second miscarriage, the couple applied to ultimate authority.</p>

<p>&ldquo;We felt like we had to surrender this to God,&rdquo; Greg said. &ldquo;Everything about this pregnancy is God&rsquo;s will. That&rsquo;s why her name is Adrielle. It means she belongs to God.&rdquo;</p>
                            
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