There are lots of reasons for traffic tie-ups on Toronto's Don Valley Parkway each workday, but on Thursday morning there was an unusual one — a mother delivered a baby beside one of the country's busiest highways.
Around 8 a.m. the mother and father were heading to Toronto East General Hospital. They didn't make it.
The father was driving near the Wynford Drive exit when the baby started to arrive. The couple pulled over — and a few minutes later they had a new baby boy.
Paramedic Marty Bulay responded to the parents' cellphone call for help .
But by the time the 21-year veteran of Toronto Emergency Medical Services and his partner got to the scene there wasn't too much to do.
The father had delivered the baby with the help of an EMS dispatcher over the phone .
"Apparently it was her fifth child. It was a very quick labour.… And they got stuck in traffic, unfortunately. And it proceeded very quickly for her because of the multiple children she's had," Bulay said.
This is the fourth roadside delivery Bulay has seen.
The parents have given each of their four other children names that begin with Sh.
Bulay says emergency crews suggested the name Shawn because it rhymes with Don.
