A woman unexpectedly gave birth to her second child after she was rushed to a Dublin hospital complaining about back pains.
Karolina Kinga Kotlarek, 25, became unwell and pulled into a petrol station last Wednesday night, before discovering she was bleeding.
Her husband Mateusz, 27, rushed her to the emergency department at Beaumont Hospital - and was congratulated on having his second son just 20 minutes later.
He said: "This was like a story from a movie. My wife told me she had pain in her back, so we went to Beaumont emergency department.
“They very quickly took my wife away and I was waiting with Maximilian in another room.
“A lady came in and brought me to my wife and everyone in the Emergency Department clapped their hands and said: ‘Congratulations! Congratulations!’
“I didn’t understand because I didn’t know she was pregnant.”
The couple, who are both from Poland, were traveling back to their home in Swords, with three-year-old Maximilian, when she had to be taken to hospital.
The baby, who has been named Alexander, weighed five pounds and 11 ounces and is said to be in perfect health.
Medics at the hospital believe she was 38 weeks pregnant when the shock birth occurred.
Mateusz said there was no indication that the "miracle baby" was on the way.
He told the Irish Sun: “Some of my friends can’t believe we didn’t know, because normally you have some news the baby is coming.
“But nothing, it’s like a miracle baby for us. There was nothing.
“My friends asked me, ‘But how could she be pregnant?’ And all I say was, ‘I don’t know, but it did not feel like a pregnancy or anything’. But it’s great, obviously we are really happy.”
The chef spent the weekend buying items for the new arrival with his dad Mariusz, who also works at Anderson's in Dublin.
He added: "We had to do in two or three days what everyone else does in six or seven months. It’s an unbelievable thing to happen."
