Xochitl Parra, a 17-year-old girl, who had kept her pregnancy secret because she was afraid her parents would have turned her out if they had known about it, gave birth to a healthy boy on Wednesday at 5.30 a.m. while she was having a shower.

When she felt the contractions were starting, she sat down and pushed the baby out. Afterwards she wrapped him and got going to a hospital, without cutting his umbilical cord.

She claimed she couldn’t call 911, as her telephone wasn’t working. She didn’t ask her neighbors for help either, because she didn’t mean to disturb them at such an early hour.

Neonatal ICU director Dr Jose Perez is the one who told the press what the condition of the girl and her child was when she arrived to the St Mary Medical Center.

“She still had the placenta and the baby was still attached.”

Perez also spoke highly of the way the girl coped with the situation.

"She was very clever. She knew what to do. She wrapped the baby up and walked over here,” he said, as quoted by the Associated Press.

The child’s condition is good and he weighs 8 pounds.

The grandmother accepted the situation and agreed to take care of the boy, as her daughter must finish her studies.