“I didn’t even realize I was under the tree until I looked up and I was like, ‘Oh! The branches!’ ” said mom Karina Largo

A Utah woman’s birth took a shocking turn when she gave birth under a Christmas tree in a hospital’s lobby.

The surprising birth happened just a couple of days before Christmas when Karina Largo and her husband rushed to Orem Community Hospital after she quickly went into labor.

“Yes, I wanted to have in a room,” she told NBC affiliate KSL. “You always picture you’ll be surrounded with doctors and nurses and helping you.”

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She added, “My water broke by Center Street and McDonald’s. I just felt like I needed to push, and my husband said ‘Just wait a little longer,’ and I tried, but I told him, ‘I can’t, I have to push now.’ ”

The husband and wife arrived at the hospital at around 2:49 a.m. local time.

“I was yanking at him and pulling on him,” Largo said.

Labor and delivery nurse Jessica Foutz added, “I mean, babies come whenever they want to.”

“People go into labor, and sometimes it goes really, really fast,” she said.

Largo was first brought to Foutz and nurse Corrina Bacon’s attention after a person spotted the her through a window.

“She looked up and noticed someone walking in the door and she said ‘I think I need to go grab a wheelchair for them,’ ” Bacon said. “As she ran out to get the wheelchair, we peeked through the window and could see that she was pretty uncomfortable.”

Meanwhile, Largo’s baby was ready to come out.

“I just want to lay down and I want to have the baby here, and the nurses were so nice,” she recalled.

Baby Jaxson ended up being born on the lobby floor just three minutes after his parents walked through the doors.

“It was the greatest gift. Just a simple birth,” said Largo.

“I didn’t even realize I was under the tree until I looked up and I was like, ‘Oh! The branches!’ ” the proud mom added. “It was definitely an unplanned gift, and I loved it,” Largo said.

Jaxson joins his older brother and sister, who gushed that he was “a cute baby, so I guess we’ll keep him.”

The family was even gifted with the now-infamous Christmas tree.

“I didn’t really want him to come through Christmas, but the Lord knows its timing,” Largo said. “He knew I needed this gift right now at this moment, so I’m very excited.”