Logan John Alexander —Courtesy of Chris Alexander

No amount of snow was going to stop Logan John Alexander from joining his family on Tuesday.

The newest member of the Alexander family in Salem, New Hampshire, made his grand entrance at home, delivered by his father, Chris, as a blizzard raged outside.

“He was like, ‘This is happening — don’t care where we are,’” Chris Alexander told Boston.com of his son’s birth.

Young Logan was born in the bathroom of his parents’ home, beating the arrival of the fire department and first responders by two minutes.

Alexander said Tuesday began like a normal day. He went to work at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, where he is a phlebotomist, as usual. His then-expecting wife, Lisana, who is a kindergarten teacher, stayed home for a snow day.


She had some cramps that morning, but she thought they were Braxton Hicks contractions and didn’t think too much of it, Alexander said. The due date for the couple’s second child was Thursday.

“We were just texting back-and-forth all day, and I ended up saying, ‘You know what, with the snow and she’s having pains and who knows, I might as well just take off for the day, just in case.’ So I ended up heading home and once I got there she was like, ‘Oh I’m a little tired. Maybe a nap will help.’”

But when she woke up from her nap around 2:30 p.m., the cramps “really started coming in,” according to Alexander.

Logan John Alexander. —Courtesy of Chris Alexander

“We finally realized they must have been minor contractions not so much just cramps,” he said.

They started getting ready to head out into the weather, while Alexander’s mother watched their older son, 3-year-old Deven.

“I’m trying to pack up and get ready, and she’s just dealing with the pain and letting me know how she’s doing and what I can do to help,” he said.

When the pains turned “to screams,” Alexander called 911.

“At one point, the minor pains turned to screams and were just like, ‘Oh boy,’” Alexander said. “So that’s when I called 911.”


The father of two said the dispatcher asked him where his wife was and told him to check and see if the baby was crowning.

“I tell her, ‘She’s in the bathroom,’ and I say, ‘Yep, I can see the baby crowning.’ She was like, ‘Oh my goodness, we need to get her on the floor, you need to get towels.’ It was like panic mode, but not panic. It was like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is happening.’”

The operator talked Alexander, who grabbed the medical bag he keeps at home, through what to do.

“And out came the beautiful baby boy,” the proud father said.

Two minutes later, the paramedics arrived to find mom, baby, and dad sitting in the bathroom. They checked Logan’s vital signs and found he was healthy before transporting the newborn and mother to Parkland Medical in Derry.

Alexander said his son, born 6 pounds and 20 inches long, is already “gaining weight and eating like a superstar” and Lisana is up and walking around “like a champ.”

The family got to return home together on Thursday.

The Alexanders weren’t the only family in the region celebrating the birth of a so-called “blizzard baby.” Another baby boy was born during the storm in Roslindale, delivered by Boston EMS.