NHL Star Darren Helm’s Girlfriend Delivers Baby in Back Seat of Car
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Hans Nyberg/iStock/Thinkstock(DETROIT) — Darren Helm is known as one of the fastest players in the NHL, but when it came to getting his girlfriend to the hospital when she went into labor, the Detroit Red Wings center wasn’t fast enough.
Helm’s girlfriend Devon Englot delivered the couple’s second child in the back seat of their car early Monday morning as he drove on I-96, on his way to the Providence Park Hospital.
“I was trying to get to the hospital as quick as I could,” Helm said Tuesday after the team’s workout.
He was sleeping at around 11 p.m. Sunday when Devon woke him and “said things were happening really fast,” he said.
“It came on so quick, we thought we’d have some time to get to the hospital, and things just took a turn,” he said. “The baby was ready to come out and say hello, and that’s what she did.”
The new baby girl, Rylee Klaire, and her mother were both doing fine, he said.
“I’m extremely proud of what [Devon] did, the courage, the pain she had to endure, it’s amazing,” Helm said.
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