A new mom and baby boy are doing well after the infant was successfully delivered on the side of the highway in Westborough on Sunday evening, according to the town’s fire department.
On July 30, a woman in labor and her husband were driving to the hospital on Insterstate 495 when they called for help after they realized the baby was coming faster than they could get there, Fire Chief Patrick Purcell said.
The dad pulled over the car near exit 107 at mile marker 106.7 on the highway, Purcell said, and called 911 at 6:01 p.m. and quickly explained the situation to dispatchers.
With an ambulance, paramedics and firefighters on the way, the dispatchers then walked the couple through almost the entire delivery process as they were parked on the side of the highway, the fire chief said.
The first responders arrived to help the mom finish her delivery just in time: the baby boy was born at 6:06 p.m., five minutes after the dad had made the emergency call.
Both the mom and baby were doing well after the birth, Purcell said, and the new family was brought into the ambulance and taken to Saint Vincent’s Hospital in Worcester.
All firefighters in Massachusetts are EMT-trained, Purcell said, and the chief added that the majority of people who responded to the birth in-person were EMTs and paramedics from Westborough.
