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With Neighbors' Help, Husband Uses Makeshift Sled to Get Laboring Wife to Hospital

By NBC Connecticut

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Screen shot of video showing pregnant woman being pulled by a makeshift sled in order to get to hospital. The woman was in labor with her fifth child.

February 15, 2013 Updated Feb 15, 2013 at 3:29 PM PDT

Neighbors in Naugatuck joined forces to help a woman in labor during Sunday, after the blizzard had dumped three feet of snow on their street.

Lauri Wood, a mother of four, went into labor with her fifth child Sunday morning. The family car was buried under snow and roads out of their neighborhood were impassable.

Lauri's husband, James Wood, along with a group of neighbors, created a makeshift sled out of a car luggage carrier to help pull Lauri through the snow for hundreds of yards.

"I was in the bathroom crying. I said I'm not getting in this. This is insane, this is ridiculous," Lauri Wood said. "He was like 'we have to go.'"

So James put his wife in the sled and with the help of several neighbors, began pulling her through the snow.

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