Cranberry Couple, Baby, Heading Home after I-279 Delivery

Little Isabella Richards was born on the side of the state highway Saturday.

With their tiny new addition in tow, a Cranberry couple is heading home today after a labor and delivery that was anything but typical. On Saturday, Matt Richards helped his wife, Concetta, give birth to little Isabella on the side of Interstate 279 near the Camp Horne Road exit. The couple had been on the way to West Penn Hospital in Bloomfield, when Concetta, who was in the throes of labor pains, told her husband she wasn’t going to make it the rest of the way. He thought she was just being dramatic. She wasn’t. As Richards pulled to the side of the road, Concetta’s water broke. Even after opening the passenger door to their truck and seeing his wife in labor, Richards said he still couldn’t quite comprehend what was happening. “I said, …

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