Strangers keep woman's car from being towed while she's in ER with newborn

When Kaylee Goemans took her newborn son to the emergency room, the last thing she needed was to add a towed car to her list of worries.

The Ontario, Canada, mom paid for four hours of metered parking at the hospital July 13 but quickly realized she would need to add more time, the Globe and Mail reported. Goemans did not want to leave her sick child to add money to the meter. So she decided to weigh her options.

The mother of three posted a comment on a Facebook group for local mothers, asking whether they knew if her car would be ticketed — or worse, towed.

Within minutes, local mothers began offering advice and help.

"Women just started pouring in, asking what car I drove and where I was parked to put change in for me," Goemans told TODAY.

A well-wisher went by the hospital and put change in the meter to keep her car from being towed.

"I was completely overwhelmed. I was completely grateful," she told the Globe and Mail. "It made a very tough and stressful situation a lot easier for me. It made me able to focus on my son's needs rather than having to worry about my car being towed."

Goemans' son, Dominic, was diagnosed with intussusception, a disorder that causes part of the intestine to slide into the next part of the intestine, causing severe pain, TODAY reported.

Despite the pain, Dominic is full of life.

"Dominic loves to be held and interacted with to take his attention away from his pain," Goemans told TODAY.

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