Trying to beat the traffic to get to a birth

Having accompanied a client into hospital to start off her induction last night, I was fully expecting this morning’s phone call when it came just before 7am. Just one small snag – her husband was asking me if I could try and be at the hospital for 8am. Given that I was now going to hit rush hour and last night’s journey with very little traffic took 45 minutes, this was always going to be a tall order. I managed to arrive by 8.30am though and had the pleasure of welcoming their beautiful baby girl into the world just before lunchtime.