Doctor delivered baby girl in 1995; 25 years later, he delivered her son
Dr. Bryan Cox, a physician who delivered a baby girl in 1995, reunited with his former patient 25 years later to deliver her son. The story highlights a rare and heartwarming multi-generational medical connection.
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In 1995, Dr. Bryan Cox was a young doctor beginning his medical career. One of his patients was a baby girl named Lauren Cortez, born at Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. Cox delivered her on March 23 that year and posed for a photograph with the newborn and her mother, Isabel Luna. Twenty-five years later, on July 26, 2020, Cox was back in the delivery room at the same hospital. This time, the baby he delivered was Cortez’s son, Logan James. The reunion brought back the photograph from 1995. But instead of being the baby in her mother’s arms, Cortez was now holding her own newborn son.The doctor who delivered a mother and then her sonAccording to CNN and various media reports, Cox had delivered more than 5,000 babies during his 33-year career.
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