I gave birth in footwell of a Ford Fiesta while my partner belted along the M65 at 70mph

A MUM gave birth in the footwell of a Ford Fiesta as her partner belted along the motorway at 70mph.

Natalie Whitton, 31, was being driven to hospital by Lee Reynolds, 34, on the M65, near Burnley, Lancs.

She said: “I could feel a little bit of an urge to push but I said, ‘Keep going’.

"Then, all of a sudden, the baby came out, and it went into the footwell of the car on the floor.”

Baby Harrison, who weighed 7lb 11oz, was given the all-clear after they drove on for checks at Burnley Hospital.

Lee said "When we were on the motorway, Natalie said 'It's coming, I'm not going to make', and that's when I thought, 'Oh, sh*t! We ain't going to make it.'

"I ended up dialling Blackburn Birth Centre, which is closer to Burnley than us.

"But when we called the midwife and said, 'Can we come to you', she said, 'No, we're full', so we just carried on."

Lee described his phone call with an NHS midwife. "I was talking to the midwife on the phone, and then the baby shot out, literally shot out, into the footwell.

"I just turned round and said: 'There's a baby in the footwell! There's a baby in the footwell!' I was in a proper panic.

"So the midwife said to me, 'Pull over on the hard shoulder and ring 999.' So that's when I pulled over."

The couple, of Darwen, Lancs, are already parents to Sienna, four.