Emily Kelly’s baby son George has car park listed as his place of birth after the unexpected arrival (Solent News & Photo Agency)
A baby boy has ‘car park’ listed as the place he was born on his birth certificate after he made a surprise early arrival.
Emily Kelly had just stepped out of her car in Queen Alexandra Hospital’s car park in Portsmouth when her waters broke and she felt her son coming out.
Staff were called and it was decided the delivery would have to happen there and then.
Baby George was born soon after, during what Emily described as a ‘very scary experience’. However, she praised the ‘amazing staff’ who helped her.
The infant, who is almost two months old now, not only has ‘car park’ listed as his place of birth, he has also been given the middle name of Parker and is known byhospital staff as ‘little car park George’.
Describing the unexpected birth, which happened on December 29, mum of six Emily, said: ‘I was just across the zebra crossing from the entrance to the hospital, right where you pay for the car parking.
‘My mum rang the ambulance and they were very quick in coming out.
Emily and George are doing well following (Picture: Solent News & Photo Agency)
‘When they turned up I was obviously happy to see them and I thought I would be able to make it to the hospital, but the midwife told me his head was already out.’
She said the staff lay her down in the car park for the delivery, before rushing George in to hospital, while she followed shortly after.
Emily added: ‘It all happened very quickly. The pain had only really started that morning and I didn’t think much of it.
‘This is my sixth baby, so, I kind of just tried to ignore it but I’m glad I didn’t.
‘All I can remember is I rang the hospital and they told me to come in and that was at about 4.20 in the morning.
‘My mum took me down and the pain started to get a bit worse in the car. We arrived at the hospital and I took four steps and my waters went, and he was basically coming and there was no stopping it.’
Hospital staff helping Emily give birth in the car park (Picture: Solent News & Photo Agency)
Emily said the situation could have been very dangerous if it had not been for the fantastic staff.
She added: ‘I reached out to the team afterwards to thank them because they were all absolutely amazing, I think if they had not come out as quickly as they did it would have been a completely different story.
‘Their quick actions in getting to me when they did, and the security guards that came out to help, all of them were absolutely amazing.
‘They managed to keep me quite chilled in what was a very scary experience.’
Both Emily and her son George are doing well.
She said: ‘He is absolutely amazing.
George’s birth certificate (Picture: Solent News & Photo Agency)
‘I have got him registered now and he actually has car park written on his birth certificate.
‘They had to double check it with the hospital as they asked me where he was born and I said by the entrance of QA (Queen Alexandra Hospital) and they thought I meant in QA, so I had to say no, not in the hospital.
‘They rang through to QA and said ‘We have a lady here claiming she gave birth in the car park’, they went “Oh have you got little car park George there?”‘
George’s birth certificate officially records his place of birth as ‘North Car Park, Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth’.
Last week, a mum gave birth to a baby boy in the front seat of a Ford ka, surrounded by gridlocked traffic.
Freya Flowers recently welcomed her son, Rome, during what she’s dubbed the ‘craziest’ and ‘longest’ car journey of her life.
Freya was screaming in agony as her frantic mum, Kim Griffiths, attempted to drive the vehicle with one hand, and deliver the baby with the other.
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