Sure, it happens a lot in the movies — but it's not too often in real life that a pregnant woman dramatically experiences her water breaking in a public place.

But SiriusXM The Highway night host Ania Hammar went into labor in an even more high-stakes scenario: She was live on air.

Hammar was 34 weeks pregnant with her first child when she walked for her regular evening country radio show on Tuesday, Aug. 5. She tells Taste of Country that it started out as a pretty regular day — even though, at 34 weeks pregnant in August in Tennessee, she was dragging a little.

"I was slowing down, I was exhausted, but, you know, still powering through," she remembers.

A regular subscriber called in to check on how she was feeling during a big block of music, and Hammar was on the phone when —

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