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SYDNEY - A Sydney random breath test site became a makeshift delivery suite and a police constable an impromptu midwife when a motorist pulled over for help with his wife who was in labour.
Hurstville Constable Wayne Hatfield and two of his colleagues were on RBT duty on the Princes Highway at Blakehurst about midnight (AEDT) when a man pulled over across the road and called for help.
The officers ran over to find a heavily-pregnant Sutherland woman in the throes of labour and her panicked husband pleading for help.
"She gets out of the (seat) belt, turns around, starts kneeling on the seat and holds on and I thought: 'Oh, we've got problems'," Const Hatfield told Macquarie Radio.
An experienced father of two, Const Hatfield asked the woman whether her waters had broken.
"She said 'No, no. That broke two days ago' and I thought 'Oh geez'," he said.
"Then she starts pulling down her pants and I went: 'Oh, we've got problems'."
The quick-thinking constable ran back to the police car and grabbed some gloves ready to guide the woman through the birth.
Thrusting the husband forward to catch the baby, it was a matter of five minutes and the head had emerged.
"She calmed down and it came out all of a sudden and I said: 'Oh good'... and then she turned around and she took the baby and it was a little boy," Const Hatfield said.
"Fantastic."
With one of his daughters being born in 45 minutes and the other inside an hour, Const Hatfield said his instincts came naturally.
"I've had two girls and a boy now, so I've finally got my boy," he said.
The parents and baby were in St George Hospital, healthy, happy and well.
- AAP
