Baby Born Near Cash Register At Wal-Mart; Store Manager Named Godfather

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[chance33_98]

Baby Born Near Cash Register At Wal-Mart
Store Manager Named Godfather

POSTED: 9:33 a.m. EDT June 27, 2002

ALBANY, Ga. -- Shenna Williams was feeling labor pains, but she and her mother thought they had plenty of time to buy a disposable camera at Wal-Mart before going to the hospital.

While her mother, Katherine Williams, was in the store looking for the camera, Shenna's pain increased.

"I heard someone scream out. I said 'Lord, that's my child,"' Katherine Williams said Tuesday.

By the time she reached the front of the store, her daughter was on a bench by the cash registers preparing for birth.

Shenna said she managed to stay calm. "I just thought, 'I'm fixin' to be a mama now, I can't be scared,"' she said.

Michael Jerrod Williams was born at 6:15 a.m. Saturday and greeted by shoppers and store employees. Several recorded the event with disposable cameras.

"It's still all everybody's talking about," assistant manager Retha Simpson said. "Especially the ones that were working and saw the actual birth. It's still big news."

The store donated gifts, and Shenna named night manager Adrian Wright as godfather.

[chance33_98]

"I just thought, 'I'm fixin' to be a mama now, I can't be scared,"

I done reckin she be correct.

[lawgirl]

Michael Jerrod Williams was born at 6:15 a.m. Saturday and greeted by shoppers and store employees. Several recorded the event with disposable cameras. GROSS!

[DainBramage]

The first thing in years to come out of Walmart that wasn't Chinese.

[TexRef]

LMAO!!!

[SpaceBar]

Paper or plastic?

[ladyrustic]

Best wishes to the new momma and child. And kudos to momma for being brave throughout her ordeal.

[mombonn]

"Lordy, we got to have a doctor! I don't know nuthin' 'bout birthin' babies!" --Prissy

Looks like she did better than Prissy did for Miss Scarlett.

[Gurn]

Ah, yet another Yankee pokes fun at someone who uses the widely accepted phrase "fixin'".

[Paul Atreides]

It will be interesting to hear how Kim Gandy spins this one.

[isthisnickcool]

LOL!

[william clark]

"CLEANUP ON AISLE FIVE"

[galt-jw]

I just wonder if she was wearing the obligatory tube top and cheap flip flop sandals.

do I hear banjo music?

[moyden]

Walmart Discount Obstetrics.

[afraidfortherepublic]

Two quick thoughts:

1) Kudos to the mama for not leaving the child in the waste can in the ladies room -- we read so much about that these days.

2) We had the story this week about WalMart employees being forced to work "off the clock". I certainly hope that these brave folks were paid for every minute they spent helping to deliver this little miracle.

3) God Bless mother and child, and God Bless the store manager.

[chance33_98]

That was three thoughts :) But a bump for a good post!

[meenie]

I was fixin' to point that out but you beat me to it.

[mikrofon]

'Bet they never covered this in the WalMart Greeter's Manual ...

[TwoSue]

I don't knooow! Could be her married name???

[BlackVeil]

I agree, GROSS, that detail about getting the cameras out. I don't know what has got into Western society that child birth is rated as a spectacle, without any modesty at all.