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15th Jun 2017

This 12-year-old delivering her baby brother has gone viral

The photos are incredible.

Anna O'Rourke

12 year old girl delivers her baby brother photos

Wow.

A 12-year-old girl did something most of her peers probably haven’t ever experienced when she helped to deliver her own little brother recently.

Jacee Dellapena from Brandon, Mississippi in the US was very hands on in helping to bring baby Cayson into the world, as these photos that her mum Dede posted to Facebook show.

12 year old delivers her own baby brother 12 year old delivers her own baby brother 12 year old delivers her own baby brother

“Every picture you see her face changing,” Dede told ABC News.

“Just looking at her, there was not a dry eye in the room. It was so emotional.”

She said that Jacee had asked to be present for the birth and that after discussing it, she and her husband Zack agreed.

It was only when the birth itself was happening that Walter Wolfe, the family’s obstetrician, invited Jacee to get involved in delivering the baby.

Jacee told her mum shortly after the birth that she now wants to be an obstetrician when she’s older.

12 year old delivers her own baby brother

“If I didn’t feel like she wasn’t ready to do what she did or be in the room, I wouldn’t [have] let her be in the room,” added Dede.

“Everybody’s just real supportive of her.”