Baby Delivered In Ambulance

AURORA (CBS) -- Aurora paramedics and firefighters helped deliver Tuesday a baby boy who could not wait to be born at the hospital.

It started as a normal Tuesday morning for 21-year-old Daisy Calderon, who woke up and took a shower. Things soon took a turn when she began to experience severe pains, WBBM'S Andy Dahn reports.

"Each minute was intensifying the pain," Calderon said. "I'm like, what is going on?"

Calderon was going into labor.

Paramedics and firefighters arrived at the home, in the 1000 block of Grove Street, to transport Calderon to a nearby hospital. The medics quickly moved her to an ambulance, as they began transporting her to Rush-Copley Medical Center, according to the Fire Department news release.

On the ambulance ride to the hospital, Calderon's contractions became more frequent. The baby could not wait. It became clear to firefighters they were going to have to deliver the baby themselves, Aurora Fire Department officials said.

Calderon told CBS 2 that the ambulance was forced to pullover in a church parking lot.

"I really needed to push," Calderon said. "And that's when this beautiful kid happened in the ambulance."

Firefighters and paramedics helped deliver the baby boy which Calderon calls a miracle child.

At about 1:43 p.m., the baby boy was born.

Officials assessed the new mother and child, then got back on the road and continued to the hospital.

Crews told Calderon that it was their first time delivering a baby in the field.

Calderon said the crew did a great job and she very thankful.

As of Thursday afternoon, both mother and child were "doing fine," according to fire officials.