SUV Birth (another roadside delivery)
By Danell Swim
March 27, 2008
Dana Dzurus fully expected an early childbirth for her second baby, considering her first one was early, too.
But having to deliver her daughter, Scarlett, as mom and child headed down the highway to the hospital was something she hadn’t planned on.
“I figured I would have the baby early,” the OPP officer said from her Thornton home, yesterday. “My son, Cruz, was born 18 days early, but his birth was nothing like this one. There was certainly lots of excitement.”
Scarlett Jill Maxine Lee was born at 6:15 a.m. on Good Friday in the back the family’s SUV in the parking lot beside the Ontario Tourism Centre in Barrie.
The six-pound-12-ounce Easter bundle, born to Dzurus and husband Brian Lee, came a week early from Dzurus’ due date.
“We were at home and we called both sets of parents around 5:30 a.m. to say we going to be heading to the hospital,” Dzurus said. “Suddenly, right at 5:50 a.m. I said, ‘Brian, something’s not right. I’m having really heavy contractions.’”
The couple made a mad dash to their vehicle, with three-year-old son, Cruz, in tow, and raced for the hospital. But realizing they wouldn’t make it, Brian Lee had to pull over to assist in his wife’s delivery.
“I was on the phone with the paramedics and they told us to pull over,” Dzurus said.
“When we exited (the highway), I was already pushing the baby out. I was in shock, panicking because it was happening so fast.
“(Lee) was wonderful when he realized he had to take charge,” she added. “He had the paramedics walk him through delivering the baby and then wrapped her in his sweater.”
Lee says delivering his own daughter was an amazing honour, but that was furthest from his mind with his wife in distress.
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