It was 4 a.m. ET Wednesday when Kenzie Lewellen’s labor began at her home in Port Charlotte, Florida, with Hurricane Milton hurtling toward the Gulf Coast.
Lewellen and her boyfriend, Dewey Bennett, 24, were both on edge.
“My mind was just running a million miles an hour, like, what am I going to do?” said Lewellen, 22. “I was very nervous.”
Bennett, the baby’s father, said in an interview Thursday, “I was very stressed.”
In 2017, Bennett’s own father, also named Dewey, died when Hurricane Irma slammed into Florida.
“My dad had a massive heart attack because the ambulance could not come out to us during the storm,” he said. Now, with another medical emergency on their hands, he couldn’t help but remember what happened the last time.