Commuters witness birth in traffic snarl

A new mother has told how she gave birth in a car at the side of a busy road as stunned commuters watched and waved on Sydney’s north shore this morning.

Claire Baker and her partner Richard Rogers were trying to get to hospital when their car got stuck in rush hour traffic on Military Road in the upmarket suburb of Mosman about 7am (AEST).

“[Richard] was driving the car on the phone to the ambulance while he [the baby] was coming out,” Ms Baker told the Nine Network.

Mr Rogers only just had enough time to turn the car’s hazard lights on and pull into a 7/11 service station at the side of the road before his new son was born.

“He was just there in my hands and the cord was around his neck, so I just loosened that off and brought him up to my chest,” Ms Baker said.

But the couple and their new baby had not gone unnoticed.

“All the commuter traffic was looking and waving,” Mr Rogers said.

“There was a particular bus where everybody was glued to the window so I was more than happy to show off the little bub.”

Paramedics met the couple and their new baby at the service station and took them to Mater Hospital in North Sydney, where both mother and baby are now doing well.

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