On August 4, Moon Lee and Alex Prevost knew their second child was due. The couple got into their car to make the 25-minute drive from their Riverside South home to the hospital, just in time. “I was trying to keep it like ‘not here, not here,’” Lee recalled. “I think the baby is coming!” Prevost says he parked the car at 4:17 p.m. and ran to the hospital to get a wheelchair. With three to four nurses in tow, the pair burst through the doors heading for the elevator. “I felt a pop,” Lee says. “Then the nurse looked down her pants and there was a lump, and then we all stopped,” says her husband. “She said, ‘Stop the wheelchair, I think we’re going to have to give birth on the floor.’ “They said, ‘Mom we have to push,’” Lee says. “And I just pushed and the baby came out and they put it on me and the blood was all over my face.” It was a rush of life for the two parents now. They say they were told that labor for the second child usually goes faster than the first. However, they didn’t expect it to be so fast. “Then at 4:25 p.m. here comes the baby and we never made it to the birthing center,” says Prevost. “We were next to the elevator lobby and Moon delivered the baby right there.” Lee and their second son are doing well. They chose the name Miles Valentine Prevost. Prevost liked the name Miles – a tribute to Miles Davis – and wanted to give his son the initials MVP They also agreed on Valentine’s middle name about a month before he was born. “We wanted her to hit the due date because that day is also Chinese Valentine’s Day,” says Moon, who adds that the couple didn’t even realize the connection until a few days before the birth. “We almost made it, almost.”
