12-year-old helps deliver baby brother in Mississippi

"Dr Walter Wolfe then suggested, 'Jacee why don't you suit up and come deliver the baby.' I was in shock lol!"

In the end, Carraway warmed to the idea and Dellapena, who is an aspiring veterinarian, got an experience that just might have convinced her to explore human medicine instead.

The courageous youngster then bursts into tears of joy as she lifts her newborn brother Cayson Carraway up into the air for her mum to see.

Jacee was outfitted in proper medical attire and the doctor guided her hands and helped her through the entire birth, including cutting the umbilical cord.

"She said that my smile and my emotions took the pain away from her", Jacee said.

'I started crying because I thought I wasn't going to get to see him be born, because I was too short, ' Jacee told MS News Now. "I was super nervous I would mess up", said Dellapenna.

Jacee originally just wanted to get a good vantage point in the delivery room, but her mother was lying on a table that had been propped up too high for her to see any of the action.

'And I said "What?"

'I was like, "Wow, like I've played fake doctor before", but this is, like, the real thing, this is the real deal.

Jacee Dellapena, 12, prepares to help deliver her baby brother.

Dellapena says the doctor actually let her pull her brother out, and that although she was nervous it was the best moment of her life. But at that point, Carraway and her husband Zack thought their daughter was too young. "Never in a million years, if you would have told me 12 years ago she [Jacee] would be delivering my last born, I would have told you - you're insane!" Carraway said her daughter suited up and was ready to go.

The post by Nikki Smith has been shared more than 169,000 times and liked more than 189,000 times. "I am surprised", said Carraway.