Mother sent home by medics gives birth at side of motorway

A MOTHER gave birth to her son at the side of Scotland’s busiest motorway just two hours after being turned away from hospital.

Alanah Wetherell, 22, and her partner Christopher Hurrell, 24, were stunned when their first child arrived in an ambulance stopped on the M8.

It came shortly after medics said she was “nowhere near” ready to deliver.

But soon after Ms Wetherell, from Branchton, Greenock, was sent home from the Royal Alexandra Hospital, she was holding baby Masin.

Ms Wetherell said: “I didn’t know where I was.

“In the ambulance, they were saying I wasn’t ready and not to push.

“They said I had a long way to go then next minute he was there under the covers. It happened so quickly”

Masin was born just after 3pm on March 20 on the stretch of motorway between Langbank and Bishopton, Renfrewshire, weighing 5Ibs 7oz.

Ms Wetherell, who works at B&M in Greenock, had been suffering pains from 5am that morning.

She had called the hospital and been told to come to the maternity unit.

After being examined, she was told her waters had broken but that she was not in labour and to go home to Greenock.

But no sooner had the couple arrived in Branchton, than they were back in an ambulance heading to Paisley.

Ms Wetherell said: “It was the first time for those paramedics that a child was delivered in an ambulance. Everyone was in shock.”