HIGH POINT -- A brave pair of EMT workers in High Point were recognized on Wednesday for going above and beyond last month.

Dec. 9 is a day that Tavia Starborn and her EMT partner Chris Harrison will not soon forget, but that now memorable call for help had some very routine beginnings.

Around 2 p.m. that Sunday afternoon, the Piedmont Triad Ambulance and Rescue Unit was dispatched on a non-emergency back pain call, but when Starborn and Harrison arrived, they found the situation to be quite different than what they expected.

"We found out we had a very pregnant female patient that was experiencing back labor and started moving toward the women’s hospital,” explained Starborn. “She didn't state that she was pregnant, she didn't state that she was in labor [when she called], so when we got there that's when we found out it was baby time."

Thinking quickly, the EMTs loaded the woman into the ambulance, Harrison flipped the emergency lights and sirens on, and they drove to the hospital as quickly as possible.

Meanwhile, Starborn was in the back delivering a baby girl completely by herself, something she had never done before but something all EMTs are prepared to do, said Chief Paula Lineberry.

“It's a very basic skill that we learn in our education, and as long as there are no prior complications with the mother or the pregnancy, it should be smooth as silk and Mother Nature takes its course," said Lineberry.

In recognition of the duo's performance under pressure, they were awarded the "Stork Award" lapel pin; both Starborn and Harrison's lapels are pink because they delivered a girl.

"I do think of her every time I put it on,” added Starborn. It’s kind of a reminder every time we go to work that this had happened, this could happen again.”

"We see so much bad news during the day of our work, so it was a very happy time for us, and we sort of feel as if they're one of the family now, of our Piedmont Triad company," said Lineberry.

After the successful delivery, both the mother and the newborn baby girl were taken to the Women's Hospital in Greensboro, checked by doctors and given a clean bill of health. At last check they were both doing just fine.

The Piedmont Triad Ambulance and Rescue Team typically only awards one "Stork Award" a year on average.