An unsuspecting Barrington man was woken from a deep slumber by his partner in the early hours of Tuesday last week.
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Less than an hour later, Jaydan Wall was standing in the parking lot of a tyre shop next to the Don roundabout, holding his newborn baby girl in one hand and a mobile phone with an ambulance officer on the line in the other.
"It happened so fast," he said on Monday, still reeling from the birth nearly a week later.
"Emma (partner) just woke me up in the middle of the night and said, 'yeah we have to go'."
He said it was just before 1am in the morning when they headed off to the North West Regional Hospital.
"I just got up, got dressed, rang my parents, and we met them just opposite the Homemaker Centre to hand our other kids over to them," he said.
"Then we started driving to Burnie. We got probably 500 metres down the road and she said, 'it's coming'."
By then it was about 1.20am, and Mr Wall said he immediately pulled over into the parking lot of a nearby tyre shop and called an ambulance.
"Basically they told me at the start to get some clean dry towels, but I didn't have any so I just grabbed anything that was clean and dry," he said.
"They were really good. They pretty much told me not to drop the baby, keep her comfortable and let her do all the work."
Less than 20 minutes later, Amiyah was born.
"It all just happened in the front seat," he said.
"I didn't drop her, but she was surprisingly slippery.
"The scary part was thinking, what if something went wrong? But it didn't.
"She got me up about 1am, and then the baby was born probably 40 minutes later."
The couple have two other children, Nevaeh and Kyson, who were both born at a hospital.
Mr Wall said the roadside birth had been the least stressful of all his children.
"It was less stressful than my other kids because it didn't last as long," he said.
"In all honesty I wouldn't want to do it again. But you don't know you can do it until you're in the moment. We didn't really have any other choice.
"They just come when they're ready."
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He said the ambulance officers, Cam and Grace, had been excellent, as well as the person on the phone.
"They got there just after she was born and took them off to the hospital. I followed behind them in the car," he said.
"I would like to say, if the Mersey Hospital was open we would have made it to the hospital before the birth."
He said both mother and child were doing well.