Baby Lyla born after police station driveway delivery
Allanah Sciberras and Robyn Wuth |
The long arm of the law has provided a helping hand in a surprise baby delivery in a police station driveway.
Baby girl Lyla was delivered with the assistance of a quick-thinking officer south of Brisbane after an emergency call with a difference.
The drama unfolded at Browns Plains station after an anxious father-to-be flagged down officers.
He had been racing to Logan Hospital with his pregnant 22-year-old partner when they realised they would not make it in time.
He swung into the station driveway for help, alerting unsuspecting officers who were returning from another job.
Constable Jenna Ziviani sprang into action and rushed to the back seat.
Guided over the phone by the Queensland Ambulance Service, she helped deliver Lyla in about seven minutes in the early hours of Tuesday.
Const Ziviani can be heard talking about the “super special” delivery moments after the birth in police footage released on Friday.
“The operator on the phone was amazing too. They talk you through it so calmly,” she said to another officer standing near the car.
Senior Sergeant Aleisha Young arrived soon after the delivery.
“Well, this doesn’t happen every day, does it?” she can be heard saying in the footage as she approached the car.
Another officer can be heard saying police were flagged down with the woman having contractions two minutes apart before the baby started crowning.
“I have been on the job 27 years and I have never been on a shift when this has happened,” Sgt Young said.
Footage then shows a paramedic assisting as an emotional Lyla is taken from the car’s back seat to an ambulance to transport the happy family to Logan Hospital.
“This is so good. It’s a celebration – I just don’t have champagne to offer you,” Sgt Young can be heard saying.
Acting Senior Sergeant Cushla Roati marvelled at the timing of the couple’s arrival at the station just as officers returned from a job.
“It was a really special moment, something you would never think would happen in your policing career,” she told reporters on Friday.
“We’re hoping the family will come into the station once mum and bub are up to it so we can have that reunion.”
AAP