A woman gave birth to a baby in the footwell of the family car as it drove down the A4042 in Cwmbran. Andrea Sheppard had been on her way to The Grange University Hospital in Cwmbran when it became very clear her new son William wasn't prepared to wait any longer to introduce himself.
As a result her husband Adam had to stop the vehicle in the middle of the Croesyceiliog Bypass in order to help after she calmly announced to him that, "The head is out." However, despite only taking a few seconds to run around to the passenger side Adam said the tot was already "cradled in his mother's arms and staring up at him" by the time he got there.
What is more, when the three finally reached the hospital their frantic dash to get inside was captured on film by a TV crew which just happened to be onsite at that precise moment.
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"William was due on Valentine's Day but decided to turn up on February 2 instead," said Adam, a 40-year-old Operations Manager and dad-of-two from Newport.
"Andrea's waters had broken that morning and we'd gone into hospital to check that all was okay at around 7am. They told us go go back home, take it easy and keep an eye on how things were progressing.
"Well, turns out things progressed a lot quicker than we expected and Andrea's pain levels shot up from from 10% to 100% in a flash." So Adam bundled the 32-year-old - a support worker for mental health organisation Newport Mind - into the car and the pair set off again.
"Luckily we live near the Celtic Manor, so The Grange is only a 15 minute drive away," he added. "But it turned out that still wasn't enough time.
"We were driving along the A4042 and I was telling Andrea, 'Breathe, try not to push'. But s we were passing South Wales Police HQ I looked down and there was the baby's head.
"So I stopped the car in the left hand lane just before the roundabout - luckily there wasn't much traffic for the middle of the day. I got out and ran around to the passenger side but was already too late, because he'd already been born and was being cradled in his mum's arms.
"It all happened lightning quick." said Adam, adding that he'd also joked about TV cameras being at the hospital for their arrival.
"As we pulled up at A&E I'd said, 'Wouldn't it be funny of all this was being filmed'. Little did we realise that a team from BBC Wales was actually there at that very moment making a report.
"We gatecrashed it, basically. And last night we got to see the result on the evening news, including Andrea and the baby being stretchered across the ambulance bays and into the hospital.
"We were in totally shock at the time, so it was nice to be able to see all unfold on the telly. It's amazing to have had our big day captured for posterity like that."
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