Woman gives birth at own baby shower

The decorations and sugary snacks were all set up at Anna Smith’s home. All that was missing were the guests.

Soon, friends and family started to pile into the house to celebrate the birth of the 33-year-old woman’s first child, due in two weeks.

But by that point, the Daily Mail notes, Smith was already a no-show at her own party. That’s because the pregnant woman was upstairs giving birth to her daughter at her own baby shower.

Two of the bridesmaids at her wedding and her brother’s girlfriend, Emma Booth, suddenly went from shower guests to emergency midwives.

Thankfully, Booth had recently given birth herself, so she remembered a few things from the delivery room.

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“I only went round for a cupcake, but I got a lot more than I bargained for,” Booth tells the Mail with what we'd like to imagine was a big laugh.

“I'd recently had [son] Max so I was just telling Anna all the things I remembered from my labour.”

Smith reported strong stomach cramps shortly before the party began and even cracked a joke about the baby coming. She cracked this joke because she thought there was no way the baby could be coming.

The baby was coming.

Guests downstairs could hear the commotion going on upstairs as Smith began to deliver her daughter. Though her friend had called the paramedics and remained on the phone with a dispatcher for help, baby Martha was eager to join the party and arrived before they could.

The proud parents now have the best baby shower story of all time and appear to be reveling in the presence of their tiny daughter.

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Meanwhile, Martha joins a long list of other babies eager to make their earthly debut.

BBC reports that a woman in Cambridgeshire, England happened to be stopping by the post office one morning when she went into labour and gave birth amidst the stamps and envelopes.

The world’s most awesome postmaster promptly put the baby on the scale and declared the 5lb 15 oz. newborn “the equivalent of an £8.22 first class parcel."

And thankfully a trio of nurses happened to be aboard Aida Alamillo’s flight from Manila to San Francisco because when the woman went into preterm labour at 30,000 feet, they were able to help her deliver on the plane.

But nothing beats the bravery evidenced by Sofia Pedro, a Mozambique woman who gave birth in a tree after she was forced up there for safety during a flood. She had to be rescued by a helicopter crew, umbilical cord attached and all.