A pregnant North Carolina woman vanished the morning she was supposed to deliver her baby, stumping worried family members who are frantically searching for her. 
 
 Carrie Bradshaw-Crowther, 49, disappeared at about 5 a.m. ET Tuesday morning from her Salisbury, North Carolina, home, an hour before a scheduled C-section, said her daughter, Lauren Lusk. 
 
 Lusk, 26, told NBC News that she had spent the weekend with her mom, helping her prepare for the birth of the baby. On Tuesday morning, Bradshaw-Crowther told Lusk to go fill up the car with gas before they set off for the 40 minutes to Charlotte for her delivery. 
 
 "When I got back, she was gone. The lights in the house were off, the door was unlocked," Lusk said. 
 
 Bradshaw-Crowther's car was also missing. Lusk called the hospital where she was supposed to deliver and police checked other local hospitals. She wasn't at any of them. 
 
 Police in Salibury, North Carolina, are asking for the public to help them find Carrie Bradshaw-Crowther, a missing pregnant woman. via Salisbury Police Department 
 
 The pregnancy was high-risk, and Bradshaw-Crowther has a medical condition that required her to deliver via C-section, Lusk said. 
 
 "She seemed nervous obviously, but more towards the end of the pregnancy, she started getting happier about it. The last few weeks, she was really excited," she said. 
 
 When Lusk left for the gas station Tuesday morning, Bradshaw-Browther was in her pajamas, with curlers in her hair. Her makeup and purse were still in the house after she vanished, but her wallet and cellphone were gone. 
 
 "It's not like her," Lusk said. "She likes to keep up her appearance." 
 
 Salisbury police did not immediately return a call from NBC News. 
 
 But Drew Bradshaw, Bradshaw-Crowther's brother, said they were still searching Saturday for her and working on a lead. 
 
 Lusk said one call was made from Bradshaw-Crowther's cellphone 20 minutes after she went missing, six blocks from the house. She was spotted at a gas station in Statesville, about 25 miles from Salisbury, and stayed in a hotel there the night she went missing, Lusk said. 
 
 The baby's father hasn't heard from Bradshaw-Crowther either, and was headed to the hospital when she went missing, Lusk added. 

 SALISBURY, N.C. -A pregnant North Carolina woman was reported missing on Tuesday, the day she was scheduled to deliver her daughter via C-section at a Charlotte hospital, reports CBS affiliate WBTV. 
 
 Carrie Bradshaw Crowther, 49, reportedly disappeared from her home in Salisbury, about 40 miles northeast of Charlotte, while her older daughter was getting gas in order to drive her mother to the hospital. 
 
 "We were gone about 7 or 8 minutes, when we got back she was gone," Crowther's older daughter Lauren Lusk told the station. "Nothing was missing, she was just gone." 
 
 Lusk had flown in from her home in Kansas for the delivery and to help her mother adjust after the birth, reports CBS affiliate WRAL. 
 
 Lusk told the station that when she returned from getting gas, the doors to the home were unlocked, but the lights were off. 
 
 Police say Crowther was spotted in Statesville, about 25 miles northwest of Salisbury, on Wednesday afternoon. Crowther was driving a champagne colored 2001 Mazda MPV van with an unknown expired Kansas tag. 
 
 "I want to tell her to come home, we love you and we miss you, and we need you," Lusk told WBTV. "She's a very likable person, she's friendly to everyone, she's really hard not to like, very personable, easy to talk to, just, everybody loves her." 
 
 Police say Crowther could possibly be heading to the Linville Gorge area in North Carolina. 
 
 Lusk told WRAL that the child's father hasn't heard from her and the family is concerned because Crowther can't give birth naturally. 
 
 "She cannot give natural birth, and that's why our family is so worried," she said. "If she does go into labor, she won't make it." 
 
 Anyone with information on Crowther's whereabouts is asked to call the Salisbury Police Department at 704-638-5333 or Crime Stoppers at 1-866-639-5245.
– A pregnant 49-year-old North Carolina woman was so excited about her upcoming birth by cesarean section that she reportedly sang around the house—and then vanished shortly before her scheduled procedure. Carrie Bradshaw-Crowther had spent the weekend at her Salisbury home with her daughter, Lauren Lusk, preparing for the birth, reports NBC News. Lusk says she left the house Tuesday morning to gas up before the two departed for the hospital in Charlotte, some 40 miles away. Lusk returned "about 7 or 8 minutes" later to find her pregnant mom was gone, as was Lusk's 2001 Mazda MPV van and Bradshaw-Crowther's wallet and phone. "The lights in the house were off, the door was unlocked," says 26-year-old Lusk, who describes her mom as nervous but happy. Now six days have passed, and the Salisbury Post confirms by way of police she's still missing. Police say Bradshaw-Crowther was spotted Wednesday at a gas station in Statesville, roughly 25 miles away, CBS News reports; the surveillance footage showed her in a blue raincoat, and police say she was also seen at a nearby hotel. Meanwhile, Bradshaw-Crowther's health may be at stake: "She cannot give natural birth, and that's why our family is so worried," Lusk says. "If she does go into labor, she won't make it." The Post reports police have identified two possible destinations: They suspect Bradshaw-Crowther could have set off for Kansas, where Lusk lives, or toward Linville Gorge, a wilderness area in the western portion of her own state. WRAL notes the baby's father hasn't had contact with Bradshaw-Crowther since she went missing.