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Incredible moment dad delivers own baby on ER floor

Mum-of-six Jess Hogan thought she knew what to expect from childbirth, but her last baby turned out to be the most memorable of all, when hubby Travis had to help deliver him on the floor of the emergency room.

This birth story is not one for the faint hearted, but the images of Travis delivering his son Maxwell Alexander Hogan in July are truly extraordinary.

When baby Max was due, Jess went to the hospital when she started feeling contractions but was sent home when her labour wasn’t progressing. Four days later though Max decided he was ready – and he wasn’t waiting.

“It was my craziest birth, but also, the most perfect. It was not at all what I had planned,” Jess shared in a blog post on her birth photographer’s website.

After having contractions on and off for days, when her water broke at home in the middle of the night Jess knew the baby was coming fast.

Jess Hogan's six birth was her 'craziest'. Photo: Little Leapling Photography
Jess Hogan's six birth was her 'craziest'. Photo: Little Leapling Photography

“I woke to a strange, long contraction. It wasn’t incredibly painful, but it caused me enough discomfort that I felt around in the dark for my husband and said “Travis, I think this is it”,” Jess said.

It was then that her water broke and things started moving quickly - they raced for the car before Jess could even put shoes on. Travis promising, he would get her to the hospital.

“I vaguely remember him mentioning to me we passed a fox and that he had to run two red lights. Luckily for us, it was 3am and the roads were empty our entire drive,” she shared on Little Leapling Photography.

Jess only just made it into the ER, through the second set of automatic doors onto a floor which luckily wasn’t carpeted like the first section when she started screaming the baby was coming.

Jess just made it into the ER before the baby was coming. Photo: Little Leapling Photography
Jess just made it into the ER before the baby was coming. Photo: Little Leapling Photography
Travis was told to 'catch him'. Photo: Little Leapling Photography
Travis was told to 'catch him'. Photo: Little Leapling Photography

Luckily her birth photographer Tammy had arrived at the exact same moment, just in time to capture the incredible birth unfold right there in the hallway.

"I then started to take my pants off because I could feel my body pushing the baby's head out. I reached down and could feel his head crowning with my hand."

A nurse arrived - who happened to be an OB nurse from another hospital - and Travis was told to “catch him”. Ironically the day before Travis had said there was “no way” he wanted to be involved in the delivery.

Turns out he didn’t have much of a choice in the end.

Travis got to cut the babies cord as well. Photo: Little Leapling Photography
Travis got to cut the babies cord as well. Photo: Little Leapling Photography
All up Max was born in 25 minutes. Photo: Little Leapling Photography
All up Max was born in 25 minutes. Photo: Little Leapling Photography

"He arrived on the floor just inside the entrance of the emergency room at 3:38am,” Jess said.

"Less than 25 minutes from the time my water broke at home, and only a few moments after we stepped inside the hospital."

Jess says she has a newfound appreciation of her husband. Photo: Little Leapling Photography
Jess says she has a newfound appreciation of her husband. Photo: Little Leapling Photography

While baby Max’s head was bruised from arriving so fast, he was born completely healthy. Dad Travis got to cut the babies cord on the hospital floor before mum was moved to the maternity ward.

"I was also totally in love with the little person laying on me, and even more completely in love with my husband who didn't miss a beat and kept his word that we would, in fact, make it to the hospital."

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