‘Baby’s here!’ I exclaimed down the phone to the 999 call handler. That wasn’t a sentence I was expecting to say to the emergency services, especially while crouching next to my car. But there I was, ...

“The baby [was] coming out when we opened the car door,” said Officer Gabriel Chiarelli of Woodstown Police Department in New Jersey Brian Anthony Hernandez joined PEOPLE as a writer-editor in 2023.

Pregnancy is full of surprises, and sometimes things just don’t go the way you plan. For some women, labor can go from feeling a bit uncomfortable to “my water just broke” in what feels like seconds.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Conversations were held Thursday between an Indiana hospital and the pregnant woman turned away moments before she gave birth. Mercedes Wells gave birth to her daughter in her car, ...