Hold­ing her ba­by in her arms af­ter giv­ing birth, Can­da­cy Phillip, the wife of rig work­er Pe­te Phillip, says she cried when the in­fant was born be­cause her hus­band was not around to ex­pe­ri­ence the joy­ous birth of their fifth child.

Can­da­cy’s hus­band died af­ter the off­shore rig he was work­ing on col­lapsed on De­cem­ber 22, last year, but his body has not yet been re­cov­ered from the sea.

She has four oth­er chil­dren with Phillip, and he al­so has an­oth­er child from a pre­vi­ous re­la­tion­ship.