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Teen helps deliver baby sister on birthday

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ORLANDO, Fla., June 15 (UPI) -- A Florida teen marked her 16th birthday by helping to deliver her baby sister in a van as she drove her mother to the hospital.

Kim Carrick of Orlando said she woke her daughter, Kaitlyn, on her birthday Monday and asked her for a ride to Winter Park Memorial Hospital because she felt her baby, due June 24, coming early, the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel reported Tuesday.

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"I told her: 'Drive as fast as you can. If you get pulled over, I don't care,'" Kim Carrick said.

However, Carrick said the baby was coming too quickly, so Kaitlyn pulled over at a gas station and called 911 while the impatient infant made its way into the world.

Doctors said baby Kylee Elizabeth was born healthy at 6 pounds, 8 ounces.

"I didn't know what to feel: happy, excited and scared -- all at the same time," Kaitlyn said. "This was the best birthday ever."

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