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These best friends who are doctors delivered each other's babies, and it's so amazing
The two friends met in 2008 when they began their residency at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and they have since remained close.
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Dr. Laquita Martinez in April 2014, helped her friend, Dr. Jocelyn Slaughter deliver her first child.
It’s been three years now and Slaughter has also returned the favor.
She helped Martinez’s deliver her third child in October.
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“It was an amazing experience. I was definitely nervous … just operating on your best friend is a little scary, but I knew that I had to do it,” Slaughter tells PEOPLE of the caesarean section.
“I knew that she wanted me to and that I wouldn’t want her do it with anybody else.”
Slaughter helped her best friend, Martinez give birth to her baby girl, Kayla, on Oct. 6.
It was an emotional moment for Martinez as she lost her son, Ryan in 2014 at just 26 weeks.
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“After I lost my child, Jocelyn really showed herself not only as a friend but a sister,” Martinez told ABC News. “That was probably one of the most difficult things an OB-GYN could do was bury my own child.”
The two friends met in 2008 when they began their residency at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta.
They have since remained close and Slaughter was with Martinez throughout her pregnancy.
She said it was an honor to help bring Martinez’s child into the world.
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“Afterwards, I walked out of the operating room and started to cry because I was just so happy that I was able to give her her daughter like she gave me my daughter,” Slaughter says.
Martinez also expressed joy at having her best friend around.
“After coming off of a high-risk pregnancy and having two prior C-sections, you want to be with someone that you trust,” she told ABC. “Someone that you know loves you and has your best interest at heart and wants to see the best for you and your child.”
Slaughter is now pregnant with her second child, and she is hopeful that the tradition will still go on.
“Because she just had her baby, she probably won’t be able to deliver mine,” Slaughter says. “But I’m keeping my fingers crossed that she might.”
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