Baby born in car near Bathurst and Lawrence
Posted January 14, 2016 5:55 am.
Last Updated January 14, 2016 9:39 am.
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A brand-new baby girl just couldn’t wait for the hospital.
Her mother gave birth in a car near Bathurst Street and Lawrence Avenue around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Mom and dad were heading to the hospital and they were on the phone with emergency services when the operator warned them they weren’t going to make it, and should pull over.
And, as it turns out, they had their older child in the car.
“Dad said the baby was coming and he needed an ambulance quick and he wanted to know how long it was going to be,” emergency dispatch operator Lorna Kelly told Breakfast Television.
Kelly said she then heard a baby crying and wanted to know if the baby was out. Dad said no: that was his older child.
“Dad got Mom into the backseat and started getting her ready for baby.”
The girl was born just as firefighters arrived, with paramedics not far behind.
“Hypothermia is always a worry but everything seems to be OK,” Toronto fire captain Mike Harper said.
Harper said firefighters bundled up mom and baby, got them into the ambulance, and then paramedics transported the pair to hospital.
The girl weighed 7 lbs., 2 oz.
