One hundred miles out of Salt Lake, Lynette Hales found herself surrounded by nothing and in nowhere when she realized she wasn’t going to make it to the hospital to give birth to her two-month premature twins.

She had woken up Sunday morning to unexpected contractions in a hotel room just across the border in Nevada where she went with friends for a final getaway before formally entering the role of motherhood, according to KRISTV.com

With her husband still at home, longtime friend Jim Gerber decided after discovering there was no hospital nearby, to drive Hales to the hospital in Salt Lake, though both thought the birth was weeks away.

They were wrong.

Emcompassed by the salt flats, the two pulled over and through instructions given during a 20-minute call with 911, Gerber, who along with Hales is a medical assistant, helped deliver the first of the twins, who was still “in the sack,” according to New York Daily News.

Grayish-blue, the child wasn’t breathing, however, and the 911 dispatchers could hear Hales through the phone pleading with her child, named after his father, to live.

“Talking to him, it was like he was connected there,” Hales said in a press conference on Monday, according to Deseret News. “He would look up at us, and he would look up at me, and I was like, ‘I’m not going to let you go. You’re going to be here, buddy.’”

Both she and Gerber revived the newborn using CPR and Hales said she kept talking to the boy as he gurgled and struggled to breathe, CBS News reported.

The baby was still struggling when Utah State Trooper Nathan Powell arrived after speeding to the call from 30 miles away.

Powell pulled out a suction tool to clear the baby’s mouth and nose and gave the infant oxygen.

Then, just as the newborn began to breathe on his own, Hales went into labor with the second baby who came out feet first but breathing.

Soon thereafter, an ambulance was on the scene, which was followed by two helicopters carrying a team of high-risk pregnancy specialists.

Though only 3 pounds each, the boys are expected to be fine, though they remain in intensive care.

“They are such miracles,” Hales said. “they are fighters.”

To see a video of the twins and their mother, click here.