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DRAMATIC DELIVERY AS BABY EVIE IS BORN IN BACK OF YORK TAXI


A taxi driver who started a journey to hospital with three passengers finished it with four after a baby was born on the back seat. According to the York Press, Mark Kermode from York Cars collected 26- year-old Stephanie Lynch, who was in labour, from her home in Dring- houses on March 3. But a few minutes into the journey, with her mum and partner also in the car, Stephanie real- ised they were not going to make it. Stephanie said: “My waters broke and the contractions


were like nothing at all. I didn’t want to go to hospital yet so waited a bit. “We had only been in the taxi for three or four minutes but all of a sudden the contractions were unbearable. I real- ised I wasn’t going to make it to the hospital. I was a bit panicked but I remember the driver being really calm. He was lovely, I think he was just in pure shock.


“My mum was there and she doesn’t panic - she just said everything’s going to be all right. It all hap- pened so quickly.” Mark pulled into a


pink again. “Mum’s very proud to


have delivered


Stephanie Lynch with cabbie Mark Ker- mode


hotel car park and got out of the taxi while Stephanie’s partner, Stephen, called paramedics for help. Her mum Claire delivered the baby girl on the back seat of the car. And the drama did not end there - when the baby


arrived she was blue and had the umbili- cal cord wrapped around her neck. Stephanie said: “I was panicking. The cord was wrapped twice around her neck but my mum unwrapped it and rubbed her back and soon she was


the baby, it’s the first grandchild she has delivered.” The 6lb 4oz baby, named Evie, was born at 11.27am and two ambulances arrived shortly after- wards to take the newborn and her mum to York Hospi- tal for a check-up. Stephanie joked that she was known on the maternity ward as the mum who gave birth in the back of a cab. She went back to York Cars later to introduce taxi driver Mark to baby Evie and thank him for


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his help. Stephanie said: “I did ring the compa- ny to say sorry. The driver said he went to get the car valet- ed afterwards and then went straight back to work. It was so nice to be able to say thank you in per- son and I’m just so pleased that every- thing was all right.” York Cars revealed it is not the first time a baby has been born in the back of one of its taxis. Malgorzata Gaska’s baby daughter was delivered by her partner Peter on the back seat of another of the company’s cars in October 2016.


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