Overview

• Luis Mendoza helped deliver daughter Kamilah in the family SUV on Sept. 2 after wife Angelica Martinez’s labor intensified two blocks from Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
• Hospital surveillance footage shows the white SUV pulling up as Mendoza calls for help and tends to Martinez during the birth.
• A valet ran inside to alert staff, and volunteer Carrie Urista notified Labor and Delivery, then checked the newborn at the car.
• Nurses, doctors and hospital president John Phillips converged with emergency supplies and quickly transferred mother and baby to a room.
• The family says both are healthy, and they returned on Sept. 16, the original due date, to thank staff as local coverage spread nationally.