Woman gives birth in car on way to hospital

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A woman gave birth to her baby in the front seat of a car after getting stuck in traffic on the way to the hospital.

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00:00 (car engine rumbling)

00:03 - Hi, I'm Daniel, I'm Delilah's dad, Demi's partner.

00:08 - I'm Demi, Delilah's mom.

00:10 - And I'm Maria, Delilah's nana.

00:12 Four days overdue, ain't ya?

00:14 - Yeah.

00:15 - And due to go for a sweep that afternoon,

00:17 midwife was gonna offer a sweep.

00:19 And I'd rang her on the morning to say

00:21 what time it was gonna be,

00:22 and whether she was gonna accept it.

00:24 And she was like, "I don't think I'm gonna last that long

00:27 'cause I'm starting to get little pains."

00:30 And I was in me work clothes,

00:32 and I was like, "What do I do?"

00:34 And she was like, "Mom, I'm gonna come for you now."

00:37 This was at about 10 o'clock, wasn't it?

00:39 And she was saying if she could manage

00:41 the pain she was getting.

00:43 She says it was just like cramp.

00:44 I think it came to mind for a quarter past 11.

00:47 And she's like, "We'll make our way to the hospital."

00:51 We rang delivery suite to tell them she was on her way.

00:54 And we got to the bridge,

00:57 and she couldn't hold on any longer, stuck in traffic.

01:01 And I had to climb out of the back,

01:04 over the front, round the side.

01:07 And the next thing you knew, baby was delivered.

01:09 While baby was being delivered,

01:11 Danny was in panic mode,

01:13 trying to get help off the police who were doing a convoy,

01:16 which was why the traffic was at a standstill.

01:18 They could only radio through for help,

01:21 couldn't actually help her.

01:23 And then baby was born,

01:26 and armed response turned up,

01:27 'cause they were the nearest people available.

01:30 And luckily, his wife was a midwife.

01:34 So we FaceTimed that to make sure

01:36 I would've done everything right.

01:37 Baby was warm and covered up.

01:40 And there was a passerby in the car behind,

01:44 who asked what was going on,

01:48 and asked if Demi's had a baby.

01:51 And she was like, "Well,

01:52 "I don't know what to do, I can't help."

01:54 I was like, "Can you please just ring me an ambulance?"

01:57 So she went back to her car to phone the ambulance.

02:00 And by the time the ambulance came,

02:02 we then got carted off to hospital,

02:04 blue flashing lights, didn't we?

02:05 - Yeah.

02:06 - I was scared to be honest,

02:08 because she was going into labor.

02:10 I was asking police for help,

02:11 and they said they couldn't help us.

02:12 They wouldn't give us a first aid kit.

02:14 They wouldn't give us a fall blanket for the baby.

02:16 I've come back to the car.

02:17 By this stage, the baby's out.

02:19 I had nothing to put the baby in,

02:21 so I had to take my hoodie off,

02:22 wrap the baby up in my hoodie.

02:24 I then got back out of the car,

02:26 went over to another police car that was there,

02:28 and they still wouldn't give us nothing to help.

02:30 So they radioed in for the other police to come and help.

02:33 - You just went into pure panic mode, didn't you?

02:34 - Yeah, I went into panic mode.

02:35 I didn't know what to do, to be honest.

02:37 - It was crazy.

02:38 Absolutely crazy.

02:39 They're just like, "Ma, my head's out.

02:42 "She's coming."

02:44 But because she's in a car seat,

02:47 all the blood and water and everything was pooling.

02:51 So when baby's head come out, until the body was delivered,

02:54 her head was actually in that.

02:56 And then when the body was delivered,

02:59 obviously that was the only time

03:00 that I could actually physically get her

03:02 and bring her up to Demi.

03:04 So because her head was there for a little while,

03:06 she swallowed quite a bit.

03:09 So she was in special care for the first week.

03:13 - She was a fighter.

03:14 (silence)

03:16 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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