Remember Ashley and Andy? They had a four-pound, twelve-ounce baby girl at 5:50 p.m. Ashley was taken by ambulance to the Martinsburg City Hospital earlier today. The ambulance didn’t have room for Andy so he walked until Pastor Bryan saw him and gave him a ride. Outside it is snowing on top of the few feet of snow already on the ground.
Ashley has been very stressed lately. As we previously reported, she and Andy were evicted and have to be out of their attic room by this Friday. As she was in her hospital bed, in labor, she called me and said, “I know I shouldn’t be stressin’ but we only have until Friday to be moved.” Most soon-to-be mothers are worried about the pain, the baby, the father, and all the concerns that a new mom would have. She has all of that plus knowing that when she is discharged, she will walk out of the hospital, into a snowstorm, with a new baby in her arms, and nowhere to go.
This is their first baby. “Now I’m just kinda tired,” she said after the delivery. The baby will be taken to the nursery for four hours of observation. Ashley said she would get to hold her before then. It must be very hard and confusing to have your first baby and be homeless at the same time.
If anyone has any ideas of where this new family can go please contact us at admin@oceangateetnertainment.com and we will forward that information to them. Or if you would like to call and leave an encouraging message for them you can do so by dialing the City Hospital at 304-263-1000. They do not have family to celebrate this time with. They only have each other….and a new baby girl.
2.10.10
DJ McCoy
