Woman gives birth before arrest at gunpoint

A WOMAN rushing to a hospital to give birth hit a few stops along the way - first at a petrol station where she delivered the baby herself, then when confused police ordered her out of the car at gunpoint.

Debbie Coleman, whose three- and four-year-old daughters were asleep in the back seat, pulled over at a petrol station in Kettering, Ohio, just after midnight on Tuesday.

“I asked if she needed help, and she just leaned back in the seat, hollered a little, and I looked down and there was the baby’s head,” said station co-owner Lloyd Goff.

Mr Goff said Ms Coleman “threw her leg over the steering wheel, groaned once, and the rest of the baby came out.”

“She caught that baby, put it to her chest, gave me a look, like, ‘I gotta go,’ closed the door, put the car in gear and away she went.”

Ms Coleman headed for the hospital, naked below the waist and with the baby boy in her arm. His umbilical cord was still attached.

Ms Coleman said she noticed several police cruisers following her before one cut her off. With guns drawn, officers ordered her out of the van with her hands up.

“I opened the door and said, ‘I just had a baby’ and let them see everything.”

Officers sent Ms Coleman on and let the hospital know she was coming.