Obstetrician Gabriela Correia is used to seeing all sorts of births, but she could never have predicted just how dramatic the arrival of her own child would be.

The 33-year-old, from Brazil, was in labour and being driven to hospital by her husband, when things escalated very quickly.

Not long after leaving home, Gabriela realised that her baby wasn’t going to wait until they reached the hospital. The couple was met by fellow obstetrician Larissa Gomes, doula Joana Nunes and birth photographer Deborah Ghelman.

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And they all helped bring baby Arthur into the world, in the backseat of the car.

“It was something very fast and it surprised me a lot. When I saw that I was already nine centimeters, there was that fear, that anguish of the transport process and the fear of ‘will I be able to make it on time or not?’ There was no time, but I had very good support”, said Gabriela (translated by Google Translate, as told to Pernambuco).

Gabriela described the birth as ‘crazy’, and she admits it’s a story to rival that of the birth of her first son, Dante.

“Dante was also a very different birth, in the bathtub, of a little baby inside the bag. My first birth was very beautiful. I imagined that this one would be overcome with emotion, not all this madness, but it really was and I have two very good stories to tell,” she said.

Photographer Deborah says this was the first out-of-hospital birth she’s photographed out of the 250 she’s attended.

“It was a mixture of feelings, but I didn’t feel afraid at any moment. It was adrenaline and happiness, for making sure that she was assisted and that it was flowing in a very natural way. Everyone was in the car laughing and very happy. There was no despair, tension, just joy. At no time did she ask to speed up. She just said ‘you will be born here, stop and it will be in the best way’,” Deborah said.

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What an amazing birth! Was your baby born somewhere other than a hospital? Let us know in the comments below.