Baby born in car at petrol station before mum could reach hospital

Baby born in car at petrol station before mum could reach hospital Sarah Frost's little boy was delivered by her sister Danielle Charlton in her car at the petrol station in Sedgefield, County Durham and nurses dubbed the tot the 'Esso garage baby' A mother gave birth to her son at a petrol station after her waters broke nine days early as she was tucking into a chicken curry. Sarah Frost was enjoying the meal cooked by her mum at her home in Trimdon, County Durham, on Sunday when she suddenly discovered that her labour was beginning. With the family not willing to wait for an ambulance, her sister Danielle Charlton decided to drive her to University Hospital of North Tees in Stockton themselves. In the rush they forgot to grab towels, so made what they thought would just be a pitstop at the Esso garage in Sedgefield. But before Danielle could get to the shop, the baby was crowning and she helped deliver her nephew there and then in the back seat of the motor. He soon arrived and weighed in at seven pounds and five ounces (3.3kg) and although his parents are still deciding on a name, nurses at the hospital have already nicknamed him 'the Esso garage baby'. Danielle said: "We go for tea at our mum's every Sunday, and Sarah started getting pains in her back after. You don't really know when to go to the hospital, but her waters had broken. We were going to get an ambulance, but she was adamant that we had to go now. "We get in the car, she is screaming, and we go and get [Sarah's partner] James. We needed to stop so I went through a no entry sign to get to the petrol station, but before I got inside I was told to jump into the back. "The next contraction, he was out. Sarah was so brilliant, so calm, I just lifted him onto Sarah's chest and wrapped him in a bodywarmer I had in the car. "I was a bit worried as he was a little blue, and because we weren't in a hospital. I just remember saying 'please cry, please cry' and he eventually did. People in the petrol station were running out with sheets and towels and then the paramedics came. "On the Sunday night, I couldn't get to sleep, all I kept thinking about was, 'I've just delivered a baby'." Sarah is so thankful for her sister's quick thinking and told Radio Teesside: "I just don't have the words, I just laugh every time I think about it. Every time nurses came through the door, they were just laughing and asking 'is this the Esso garage baby?'" Other incredible deliveries The petrol station arrival would be considered a walk in the park compared to some other places babies have been delivered. In 2011, a tot was born at 30,000ft after a Filipino woman went into early labour during a flight from the Philippines to the US. Aida Alamillo was moved to a private area in business class when flight attendants realised what was happening. Luckily, three nurses happened to be on board to help with the birth. A few years later, two Subway sandwich shop workers turned midwives for the day when an unnamed woman burst into their Nevada store saying she was in labour. The pair quickly placed clean sandwich wrappers and rubbish bags on the toilet floor before the woman gave birth to a baby boy. But any birth could struggle to top Sofia Pedro, who welcomed a little girl up a tree after escaping rising floodwaters in her home country of Mozambique in 2000. In a dramatic rescue, airforce medic Godfrey Nengovhela was lowered from a helicopter to the tree to help the 26-year-old deliver the baby and cut the umbilical cord before winching them both to safety. “We spotted her just in time,” the medic said. Following her three-day ordeal, Sofia said: “I'm so happy.”