Employees at an Atlanta McDonalds helped a woman give birth (Picture: Getty Images)

A pregnant woman on her way to the hospital ended up giving birth in a local McDonalds with the help of restaurant employees.

Alandria Worthy was driving to the hospital on Wednesday with her fiancé Deandre Phillips early Wednesday morning when she asked to pull over and use the bathroom at a McDonalds in Atlanta, Georgia.

‘I went into the bathroom and my water broke immediately,’ Worthy said.

Luckily, the franchise’s manager went to check on the new mother and saw what was happening. ‘She was on this toilet laying back, screaming,’ manager Tunisia Woodward told 11 Alive News.

First responders arrived to the McDonalds after Worthy had given birth (Picture: Facebook)

‘We’re having a baby today,’ Tunisia Woodward told her staff. Woodward recruited two of her female coworkers, Keisha Blue-Murray and Sha’querria Kaigler, to assist in the birth.

Phillips stepped into the restaurant to check on his fiancé, only to find her in the middle of giving birth.

‘We all are mothers and so we put our heads together and all we needed daddy to do was catch the baby. And he did,’ Woodward said.

Baby Nandi Ariyah Moremi Phillips already got the nickname ‘Little Nugget’ from her birthplace (Picture: Facebook)

Phillips said he rested Worthy’s legs on his shoulders while she grabbed Woodward’s arm to push. The baby came out head-first right into the new father’s hands.

Worthy and Phillips named their baby Nandi Ariyah Moremi Phillips, but the McDonalds staff thought of a fitting nickname: ‘Little Nugget.’

‘She had a nickname before she even left McDonalds,’ Worthy said.

Phillips also agreed that the name was fitting. ‘My parents loved the name, too. We were like, okay, it fits her. My little nugget.’

Franchise owner Steve Akinboro said he was giving the staff members who assisted in the birth $250 gift cards each.

Phillips and Worthy said they were planning to visit the restaurant again soon to introduce Little Nugget to the staff that helped bring her into the world.

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‘I went into the bathroom and my water broke immediately.’