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Who says the milkman doesn't deliver, anymore?

He does, and he did.

Bob Hilton, a milkman, found himself delivering a baby in a Frisco parking lot early Tuesday.

The newborn already has a couple of nicknames: Elsie. Thumbelina.

She was born in a Tom Thumb parking lot.

Her parents were panicked. They tried to make it to the hospital.

"I think I was telling [my husband], 'No! Go somewhere else where there's people because we need some help!'" said new mom Francesca Downing. "Sure enough, this truck was coming, and he flagged the man down. And it was a Bordon milk truck."

Hilton grabbed a shoestring out of Jeffrey Downing's shoe and tied off the umbilical cord.

"If it's a girl, name it Elsie. And if it's a boy, name it Bob," Downing remembered Hilton saying before we went away. "We went with Giana."

Bob Hilton was a little disappointed to hear that.

He finally met his special delivery a few hours later at the hospital.

"She's about a five pounder," he said. "About the same weight as a couple gallons of milk."

Think of all the tales -- and jokes -- the Downing family will have to tell as Giana grows up.

"This is the best delivery of them all," said Hilton. "Best delivery of them all."