Mum passes driving test while in labour
Then drives herself to hospital to give birth:
UK: A MUM-to-be made an emergency stop minutes after passing
her driving test screeching to a halt outside a hospital before hurrying
inside to give birth. Emma French, 20, went into labour as she was
taking the test and did not tell the examiner, even though her
contractions were only 10 minutes apart.
And despite the pain, she passed and then drove herself to hospital
to have her first baby. Emma was not due for another month but had woken
at 4am to find her waters had broken.
Yet when the baby did not arrive, she decided to sit the 8.40am test
despite pleas from her family.
She said: “Everyone was telling me to go to the hospital but I had
waited so long for my driving test, I was determined to do it.
“I didn’t dare tell the examiner I was in labour in case he made me
cancel the test. The nurses in the hospital were very confused because I
was getting congratulations cards for both my baby and my driving test.
When I told them, they were all in shock. They couldn’t believe it.”
The warehouse worker, who lives in Livingston, West Lothian, with her
parents, explained: “I had failed my test in March and had to wait for
another. “I knew I wouldn’t have another chance until the baby was a
little older so I didn’t tell my instructor or the examiner what was
happening and just got on with it. “When I am determined to do something
I don’t stop until it’s done and it’s the same with this. It was really
scary and everyone must think I’m crazy but it ended the way I had
hoped.”
Boyfriend Neil MacFarlane, 21, her brother Scott, 22, and her mum
Rhonda, 44, had urged her to cancel the 45-minute test and go straight
to hospital.
And despite offers of a lift after she called at her grandparents’
house to break the news about passing her test and being in labour, Emma
was keen to make use of her new licence and drove herself to the
maternity ward.
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