Updated at: 03/31/2009 5:41 PM
By: Nicole Muehlhausen, Web Producer
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Dad delivers baby with Internet instruction during flood
 

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A Hendrum, Minn. man used nothing but instructions from the Internet to deliver his new baby girl.

With the Red River growing higher and higher on Sunday and her basement flooding, Natalie Peck went into labor.

A midwife was not able to get to the home on time so the task was left up to dad. He turned to the Internet for instructions and delivered a health baby girl named Margaret.

"I think its something guys can relate to if all else fails follow the instructions and this was one of those times I was going to follow the directions to a T," laughed new father Jordan Peck.

The family's not sure when or if they can return to their home. For now, the new family are staying with friends.

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 Klobuchar visits hot spots 
 Flood waters close lanes of I-94
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 Moorhead college closes as flood fears grow 
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 Fargo-Moorhead nursing homes plan evacuations 
 Fargo officials plead for more volunteers 
 Humane Society sets up shelter for flood victims' pets
 Fargo uses social networks to fight floodwaters
 500 homes threatened in Oakport Twp. near Moorhead 
 Crews blast ice on Mo River to clear jam 
 Central Minn. residents sandbagging around homes
 New crest predictions shake Fargo residents confidence 
 Water still high in Crookston 
 New weapon against flooding: Explosives
 Flooding closes roadways in western Minn.
 Pawlenty speeds state flood request to feds 
 Red River now projected to crest Saturday in Fargo
 Central Minn. sending volunteers to Fargo 
 New, higher river crests predicted
 In race against river, Fargo pulls together  
 Wahpton officials plug weak spot in dike
 Amtrak detours trains due to flooding
 Crookston orders evacuations due to ice jam flood
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 Pawlenty to be briefed on flood preps
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