Orr said he has a 16-year-old son of his own but hasn’t seen a baby born since. He went back into the store for rubber gloves. Strangers jumped in to help and the woman on the phone with 911 dispatchers passed along their instructions. Orr has no medical training for delivering babies.

Before Medeiros’ mother-in-law could get back out of the store, the baby was born. Diesel was wrapped in a coat. Orr used his shoe-lace to tie off the umbilical cord as the ambulance arrived.

Medeiros said once she went into labor, she didn’t know what was going on around her.

“The ladies helping were great,” she said.

She said her first thought was panic and wishing her son’s dad, Chris Senff, was there. Senff works in the oil field and was at work when it happened.

The woman who called 911 kept Medeiros calm and let her know how the baby was doing. Others kept her now 3-year-old, Triton, in the truck. Someone else brought a blanket.

After she knew her baby was OK, Medeiros said, she was cracking jokes about her “Wal-Mart baby.” Because of his early arrival, Medeiros and her son now share a birthday.