A newborn baby may not be able to eat doughnuts but one has been supplied with a year’s worth of the treats after being born in the parking lot of a Krispy Kreme outlet in Alabama.
Sha’Nya Bennett, 23, gave birth to her new son, Dallas, on Krispy Kreme property in Dothan, Alabama, on 22 January after a historic snowstorm prevented her and her partner, Keon Mitchell, Dallas’s father, from reaching hospital in time.
“By the time we got to the turn light by Krispy Kreme, that’s when I felt his head coming,” Bennett told Gold Morning America.
“[Mitchell] did a U-turn into the Krispy Kreme parking lot and we heard the sirens down the road but by the time he parked, probably like a few seconds later, Dallas started coming out.”
An ambulance arrived and transferred Dallas to the nearby Flowers Hospital for a checkup. Bennett said that the child is “doing great” following his impromptu arrival at the Krispy Kreme.
Following the unusual birth, Krispy Kreme has offered Dallas, and, more pertinently, his family free doughnuts for a year and will throw Dallas a birthday party every year until he’s an adult.
The doughnut chain, which has more than 350 stores across the US, said that it is the first time they know of that a child’s birth certificate has “Krispy Kreme” listed as a place of birth.
“We’re just so happy that Dallas, Sha’Nya and Keon are all doing great,” said Dave Skena, chief growth officer at Krispy Kreme.
“We’re in the business of sharing joy and sweetness, but the arrival of Dallas at a Krispy Kreme shop during a once-in-a-century snowstorm might be the sweetest ever.”
