What began as a determined plan for a natural birth turned into an unforgettable delivery in grandma’s truck for Lake L.A. mom Sandi Mendoza, whose daughter was born on the floor of the pickup Saturday morning.

Mendoza, 27, now a mother of three, told KTLA she had been laboring at her parents’ Palmdale home for hours, waiting as long as she could before heading to the hospital. She wanted to avoid induction and experience a natural delivery after having epidurals with her first two children.

She credits her smooth, if chaotic, experience to one surprising factor: the red raspberry leaf tea she drank daily throughout her pregnancy.

“I had a coworker tell me she did the same thing, and her baby popped right out,” Mendoza laughed from her hospital bed, where she breastfed her newborn daugh

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