Woman delivers while on way to Sharjah hospital

Paramedics had to assist a woman deliver her baby en route to a Sharjah hospital on Sunday. The baby was born while the mother was being escorted to Al Qasimi hospital. Latest reports reveal the baby is in perfect health and the mother is recovering well from her mobile delivery, an official at the hospital said. Gulf News visited the young mother while the newborn boy slept blissfully. The mother said her son was born at 8am on Sunday and weighed 3.5 kilograms. She and her Emirati husband have decided to name the boy Yousuf. The natural birth came as a complete surprise to the woman because she had been advised by doctors in Egypt and the UAE that she would need a caesarean delivery. Earlier, the woman had given birth to her eight-year-old daughter by caesarean section. The mother said she was suffering in recent days because the amniotic fluid broke and she was in severe pain. She said she went on Saturday to see her doctor who told her that her baby would be born on February 27. Her doctor told her that her womb was still closed and there were no signs of labour. "I went on Saturday to the hospital because I felt the labour pains, but the physician told me, it was too early for labour," she said. "I did not guess that I would deliver on Sunday because my physician had given me February 27 as the birth date."