Rachel Standfest deserves an award for mom of the 12 months.
When the barnhouse that the Michigan native and her husband Travis Standfest had been staying in caught hearth final Might, Rachel jumped from a second-story window to flee—regardless of being 36 weeks pregnant.
“The very last thing I bear in mind is Travis punching out the display screen window, and I might see my mother within the driveway yelling, ‘Get out now,'” Rachel instructed People in an interview revealed Might 23. “And that is the very last thing I bear in mind for in all probability two weeks.”
And whereas the brave transfer saved her and her child’s life, the 26-year-old admitted that her solely thought on the time was “battle or flight.”
“Within the second, I do know I used to be scared,” Rachel defined. “I do know each of us had a second of, ‘Oh my phrase, is that this it? Are we going to die?’ However I wasn’t scared to leap out as a result of I knew that is what we needed to do to outlive.”
After making the almost 20-foot soar, Rachel was rushed to the hospital, the place their daughter, Brynlee Rose, was born via an emergency C-section.