SOMETIMES you'll see on the news a story about a woman going into labour and the baby simply not waiting, with the birth taking place somewhere like the side of the road en route to the nearest hospital.
UK woman Chiara Musetti went one better by giving birth to her baby girl Siena in the back seat of her BMW while her husband was racing to hospital at 120kph - navigating flooded roads no less.
Siena was born just two-and-a-half hours after contractions began, when chaos ensued.
The delivery took place just a few minutes before reaching Furness General Hospital in Cumbria, in the UK's Lakes District in the upper northwest.
Appropriately, Musetti said her baby "popped out" as her husband, James Spence, flew around a roundabout.
Making things even more hairy were the frequent stops the pair had to make from their home in Windermere to make sure the car could get through treacherous waterlogged roads.
"We were about 10 minutes from the hospital when my waters broke, then I knew the birth was going to happen pretty quickly," Musetti told the UK Independent.
"About five minutes later her head started coming out.
"I had to sit up in the chair, take my seat belt off and pull my leggings down - she just fell out and I had to catch her in my arms," she recounted.
Baby Siena was born happy and healthy, and is "doing well".
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