Old Town’s Newest Addition Enters World In A Special Way…At School!

It's one of the first things they teach new parents attending a birthing class when it comes to giving birth: make a plan but be ready for that plan to change.

Anyone who has ever had one knows that babies operate on their own clocks- especially when it comes to the wheres and whens of their grand debuts into this world.

(I've had four of them and not one of them did me the solid of arriving on their due date. One was early and three were late.)

There's no doubt that Tori Hildreth, Jobs for Maine Grads instructor at Old Town High School, thought she had plenty of time to finish some things up before little Bella Reese was scheduled to arrive. After all, this was not her first rodeo, and Hildreth was full-term and feeling good.

She went to work Tuesday morning, like normal, but by the end of the day, she'd added an extra name to the school's daily attendance sheet.

As the folks managing Old Town High School's  Facebook Page shared, the former Old Town High grad (2012) turned staff member gave the school nurse and the resource officer a hands-on pop quiz in Labor & Delivery that day.

"Just before the end of the school day, Tori started experiencing contractions and she made the decision to call her Mom (Clarice Chavaree Hildreth, OTHS Class of 1992) as they worsened. Our School Nurse, Jana Caron, and our School Resource Officer, Willy King were summoned to the scene. As Tori was being moved into her mother's car for transport home, Bella made the decision to leap into Nurse Jana's waiting arms. EMS had been called earlier and upon arrival, Tori's father, Mike Hildreth (OTHS, Class of 1988) was driving the firetruck."

Can you even imagine?!

Congrats to Mom, Dad, and big sister, to the grandparents, and to the staff at Old Town High School (who I hope will get some mad extra-credit points for what has to be one of the coolest school projects ever completed within the halls of that High School.)

Welcome to the world, baby Bella! People with math skills have calculated your graduation date from Old Town High be 2042, if you follow in the footsteps of your parents and grandparents.