WITH GREAT-AUNT'S HELP BY PHONE, THIRD-GRADER DELIVERS BABY BROTHER

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When her pregnant niece Kim Tennyson started nesting, Nadine Rogers joked that the baby was going to show up in the wee hours.

"She was cleaning house and washing and running the vacuum," Rogers told AOL News.

Tennyson had reported to the hospital more than once in recent days with contractions. Each time, she was told her surges were of the Braxton Hicks (pre-labor) variety.

"I told her, 'You watch, that baby's going to hit you at 2 in the morning,'" said Rogers, who, although she is Tennyson's aunt, has been called "Grandma" since Tennyson's mother left her at 9 months.

Despite her prediction, Rogers was dubious when Tennyson rang at 2 a.m. early Saturday morning.

"She was screaming and hollering and said, 'Grandma, it's time, it's time.'

"I said, 'No it's not.'

"She said, 'Yes it is.'"

Mother knows best; Tennyson was indeed on the verge of delivering a baby boy, and she was at home with the impending arrival's sleeping older brothers, ages 4, 5 and 8.

Rogers had no time to travel from her home in northeast Oklahoma City to Tennyson's home farther south in Midwest City. Tennyson had no time to travel to the hospital.

A mother of seven, Rogers could walk Tennyson through the delivery, but she needed a pair of helping hands on the other end of the phone line. She asked Tennyson to wake up her oldest child, DemRay Love, a third-grader Rogers describes as calm and shy.

Following his great-aunt's instructions, DemRay gathered towels and helped Rogers keep his mother calm, first when her water broke at 2:30 a.m., again when the baby crowned at 2:40 a.m., and finally when the baby was born at 2:45 a.m.

After briefly meeting his new brother Dre-Saun Austin, 7 pounds, 4 ounces, DemRay opened the garage door for the EMTs, woke his little brothers and dressed them for their ride to the hospital with family members.

Three days after being delivered by his big brother, Dre-Saun and his mom are healthy and at home. DemRay is back at school, where he is being heralded as a hero.

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