


She must be exhaust-ed.
A UK woman stunned her family and medics by giving birth in a parking lot outside an England hospital this month.
“It was very rushed and I was in shock, really — I didn’t have any time to think at all,” Taylor Thacker, 27, told SWNS.
“My little drama queen had to make an entrance somehow,” she added.
Elsie-Jay arrived at 5:54 p.m., on Jan. 7, one week before her due date. She was delivered by her grandmother, Karen Hayward, 54.
Thacker said her daughter was born just 45 minutes after her water broke at her home in Rainham, Essex.
Thacker, Hayward, and Thacker’s fiancé, Paul Clarke, rushed to the hospital — but they didn’t make it to Queen’s Hospital in Romford in time.
Clarke, 33, had to cut the umbilical cord since there was no time to notify hospital staff.
Two women who happened upon the unusual scene also lent a hand.
“I’d like to thank passers-by who helped me into a wheelchair and kept me warm by providing a hospital gown and reassuring me,” Thacker said.
She noted that it was particularly cold that day.
Once they were alerted, around 10 staff members rushed out to help Thacker and Elsie-Jay into the hospital, where they spent the day before being discharged.
“The midwives were shocked,” Clarke recalled. “It’s not every day a baby is born in the car park.”
Elsie-Jay joins sister Ivy-Lea, 3, and brother Freddie, 1.
“I was very much relieved and just happy she was healthy,” Thacker said.
Other unique births include a woman who gave birth on the toilet — and caught the newborn.
There’s also been a rash of car deliveries lately.