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2 Montreal police officers deliver healthy baby boy in car

Two Montreal police officers helped a mother deliver her baby in the family car early Christmas Day. Philippe Huguen/AFP/Getty

MONTREAL — It was like a modern-day urban nativity scene: two police officers delivering a baby in the family car.

“It was like a scene out of a movie,” Montreal police spokesperson Jean-Pierre Brabant told Global News.

At about 3 a.m. on Christmas morning, two police officers were approached by a man near the corner of St-Laurent Blvd. and Gouin Blvd. West.

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He told the officers that his wife and four-year-old son were in the car, and his wife was about to give birth.

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“She was very advanced,” said Brabant.

The officers had no choice but to help the mother give birth to her baby in the vehicle.

Although eight weeks early, the 32-cm-long baby boy was born without any problems, and he and his mother were transferred to the Sacré-Coeur Hospital for follow-up care.

Brabant told Global News that he took two plush stuffed animals — police puppies — to the hospital as a gift to the baby boy and his brother.

“I really like doing interviews like this on Christmas Day,” he said with a laugh.

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