Every birth is incredible, but this mum’s minivan self-delivery takes the cake
Twitter user The Finesser somehow managed to capture footage of his wife labouring – and ultimately giving birth – in the front seat of their vehicle as he drove her to hospital.
Content note: This article shows some nudity and the (quite noisy) birth of a baby.
“Can you wait like two minutes?”
Several of the couple’s other children were strapped into the back of the car, as their mum navigated the final stages of labour and caught her very keen to arrive newborn baby as they hurtled along the road.
“So yesterday my wife deliver our 5th child in the passenger seat of our car. Still shook!” The Finesser – who heads up his own clothing brand – posted.
The video shows his wife screaming her gosh-darned head off, as one is wont to do when an entire human is departing your nether regions and your bare butt is exposed to passing motorists.
So yesterday my wife deliver our 5th child in the passenger seat of our car. Still shook! pic.twitter.com/cTBhSulYnZ
— The Fine$$er ? (@youngflymouthOG) September 6, 2018
“Can you wait like two minutes?” this expectant gent pleads juggling roles of driver, birth film director, birth coach and dad.
“Help me! What do I do?” the labouring mum cries.
“Hold on. Hold on … Coming out? Wait, wait,” dad pleads again, followed by “ohhhh! She had the baby. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. We just delivered a baby in the car. I can’t believe that just happened.”
This incredible woman made it all look pretty easy, to be honest, her baby appearing to slide right out into her waiting arms.
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“I feel like I’m dreaming”
Once safely snuggled together, this fifth-time mum cannot stop smiling with joy and relief. The tiny newborn squawks as his mum kneels awkwardly in the front seat, undies down to her knees and umbilical cord flopping about.
“That’s crazy isn’t it guys? We just saw a baby born!” the dad-once-again says to his other children who are quietly sitting in the back seat looking a combination of shell-shocked and delighted.
His wife, panting and out of breath, mumbles “I feel like I’m dreaming … Will you put my dress around her?”
Wow. One of the couple’s children was so unsure about this whole sibling-birth-in-a-van experience they’ve been turned into a meme. (Scroll down for those.) Others on Twitter were unsure about the wisdom of driving while filming, but what’s done is pretty much done.
“It was crazy”
On Instagram, this elated mum shared a little more about this amazing birth, admitting that she wouldn’t have had it any other way.
“There was something beyond special, about getting to deliver my own baby,” she wrote. “No doctors or nurses, no lights, or busy people, no one interrupting a moment that should be the most special moments for families as they bring life into the world. The pain was there, but the joy and peace that followed in those minutes we got to spend alone with our sweet girl was more rewarding then anything I could have asked for. ”
“People are shocked and often apologize that I didn’t make it to the hospital. They don’t understand that I just experienced something unrivaled to anything I could have imagined. I witnessed my body take over and a baby be born into my hands. My body is not swollen, and I have no tears. I had my husband and children around me, and for 5 minutes, we embraced everything that happened without any interruption … It was crazy. But it was amazing.”
Congratulations to this family on their brand new baby girl. Brilliant job, mum!
