A pregnant woman named McDonald gave McBirth at McDonald’s — proving McDonald’s delivers:
UNION, Missouri — Ann McDonald knew the baby was coming and there wasn’t a hospital in sight, so she pulled over and delivered the child outside — appropriately enough — a McDonald’s restaurant.
Chayse Westin McDonald was due Wednesday. But on Sunday, Ann McDonald knew her time was getting near — and fast.
Problem was, there is no hospital in this eastern Missouri town, and the closest one was 15 minutes away.
McDonald, whose husband is fighting in Iraq, and the child’s grandmother, Linda Cuneio, got in the car, but it soon became evident they wouldn’t make it to a hospital. So they pulled over at a McDonald’s in Union.
The baby was born beneath the golden arches.
"Of course everyone is like, ‘Are you going to name him Ronald?"’ Ann McDonald said.
As the baby stuck its little head out a McDonald’s employee turned to Ann McDonald and asked: "Do you want fries with that?"
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.