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Bumper baby born
in car jam BUMPER baby boy Sam Lyall was born on the back ,seat of a car trapped in a gridlock. Hyde grandfather
Alan Lyall, aged 44, sped to Stepping Hill Hospital with daughter Stacy
when she started giving birth in With four
family members crammed in, including 15year-old brother Daniel, and
boyfriend Karl Jones, aged 21, the car was caught in rush hour traffic
near the hospital on the nightmare A6 in Stockport. A midwife
did stop to help despite being off-duty, but found 6lb lOoz baby Sam
had arrived. She accompanied the family to the hospital in an ambulance. Twenty-year-old
Stacy, who works as a cleaner, was born atStepping
Hill. She said: "You could say I was brave but I didn't have any
choice, I couldn't stop myself. "I didn't
expect the baby to be born. I'd just been to the doctor and she said
I was not in established labour. “As
soon as I got home my waters broke. It was only 45 minutes from when
we left home when I had the baby." The family
were stranded in traffic between Stockport Grammar School and the hospital
when Sam arrived into his mother's arms. "If
you call picking him up delivering him, then I did it, but it was just
so fast," Stacy said. "I'm still in a state of shock." The former
Werneth Secondary School pupil added: "It was great that I didn't
have to go through hours of labour, I was lucky it was over so soon. "There
were no complications. If there had been... it's not a very hygienic
place for a baby to be born. I had problems with first son Liam and
he was born in hospital." Proud father
Karl said: "I was an absolute wreck. I kept saying, ‘You can't
push, you can't push', but the next thing Baking firm
driver and grandfather Alan said: "When she said Stunned brother
Daniel said: "I didn't know what was going on. I was surprised
by how fast my dad was driving. I didn't expect there to be a baby." Mum Stacy has now returned home to Grosvenor Road in Hyde with Sam, who was born four days early but is healthy and very snoozy after his surprise arrival. |
