Izzy Farrell had been in labour for 22 hours with her first daughter, Calliope, two, so was not expecting to give birth on the due date of her second daughter.
A mum gave birth in the car on the hard shoulder of a motorway with her partner tying the umbilical cord with his shoelace.
The emergency call handler instructed Christian to use his shoelace to secure the split umbilical cord. Merely 13 hours after the onset of contractions, the family was already homeward bound. Chris recounted the dramatic events, saying: "Izzy was labouring in the car but the first time she gave birth, it took so long that I never considered we wouldn't make it to the hospital in time. I was driving as fast as the law allowed - but when Izzy said the baby was coming, I had to pull over.
"I called 999 but it happened so quickly that I had to drop my phone halfway through the call to pull out the baby! Everything ended up fine in the end - except the car resembled a crime scene afterwards! ". "I opened the car door and could already see it crowning - we could tell that baby was coming no matter what. Neither of us do medical jobs and had never done anything like this before! The umbilical cord had split in the chaos of bundling her up and pulling her out, and the operator said there was a risk of blood loss if that happens. So I had to take off my shoe and use the shoelace to tie it off.
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