A new dad not only managed to deliver his own baby, but he had the foresight to set up his camera first so he captured the whole thing on film.
Keen photographer Martin Boyce, 35, from Leicester was called into action when his partner Holly Dawson, 24, went into labour in the early hours of the morning, and their baby ended up arriving before the midwives.
‘Holly woke me up at about 3.30am on Sunday morning – she quite calmly said, “I think it’s started”‘ Martin explained. ‘But we thought we had ages and ages to wait’.
‘But as I came down the stairs Holly was starting to call out in pain and panic – it was coming on much quicker than we’d imagined,’ Martin said. ‘Holly set up in the middle of the living room floor, and the penny started to drop that the baby was coming now.’
Martin called the midwives, but baby Isabelle was too quick for the professionals.
Fortunately, along came Polly, Martin’s mum, to lend a helping hand.
‘They told us the midwives were on the way, but it got to the point where Holly said, “I think I need to push”.
‘I looked down the business end and saw the baby crowning, and I realised I’d have to step up and deliver her – I’d thought my role would just be hand-holding.
‘But something changed in my brain, and instinct just takes over,’ Martin explained.
‘It was only after everything was over that I remembered I’d set up the camera, and thankfully I’d managed to catch the whole thing on film,’ said the new dad.
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