Baby Sienna born on freezing A66
A BABY baby born on the A66 in freezing conditions is recovering well from the experience, medics said.
Sienna Waring was delivered by her father Andrew as he tried to get her mother Daniella to hospital in terrible driving conditions.
She was born near Stockton-on-Tees moments before paramedics arrived at the scene.
Sienna, the couple’s third child, weighed 10lb 1oz and was taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital for a warm-up, but was said to be doing well.
Her father had opened the passenger-side door and knelt outside the car helping his wife as she gave birth.
Mr Waring, from Catterick, North Yorkshire, said: “The weather was very bad and I struggled to find somewhere to pull over and barely had time to ring 999 when the baby started coming.
“Having been present at the birth of our two other children, I just copied what I had seen then.
“I opened the passenger door and knelt in the snow to deliver the baby.”
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) land-based crew were first at the scene, followed by a regular crew from the North East Ambulance Service.
Philip O’Donnell from GNAAS said: “The conditions were challenging to say the least and we initially had difficulty finding the family.
“But after driving up and down the road a couple of times we were able to locate them and inform the ambulance service as to their whereabouts. The baby had arrived shortly before we arrived.”