TOOT HILL: Special delivery for paramedic

By labrown

A PARAMEDIC will never forget the moment she helped bring a baby boy into the world in the back of an ambulance.

Anne Worley, 45, and emergency medical technician Brian Clark, had just started their shift at Ongar Ambulance Service when they received a call to a house in School Road, Toot Hill.

Their professionalism was put to the test when she realised heavily pregnant Debbie Brewer, 26, was in a major hurry to get to Harlow's Princess Alexandra Hospital.

Anne said: "The contractions were four minutes apart so I thought we might just have enough time but the baby was born three minutes before we arrived at the hospital," Anne said.

"I was praying hard that there would be no complications.

"When I saw his mouth moving for air I was just relieved everything had gone so perfectly and wrapped him up in some blankets."

Anne, who has worked in the ambulance service for seven years, said: "In my career as a paramedic this is the one job I will always remember. I will always think about it and smile.

"It's rare for a baby to be born in an ambulance because normally people have got themselves to the hospital by that stage."

Baby Ty Bilmohammed was born at 8.40am on Wednesday weighing 7lb 5oz.

His parents Debbie, 26, and boyfriend Imran, 23, of Woodford Green had been sent home from Whipps Cross Hospital as Debbie was two weeks premature.

"I went back to my mum's house and had a bath and it just sort of happened," Debbie said.

"I didn't have time to think about it.

"But Anne and Brian were just so fantastic.

"He was born as we pulled into the hospital. He just couldn't wait."