STAFF at an ambulance training centre sprung into action to deliver a surprise arrival.

Sinead McCann, 23, was on her way to Southend Hospital when she realised her unborn baby wasn’t going to wait any longer.

Her mum, who was driving, pulled into the Thames Ambulance Service headquarters on Charfleets industrial estate, Canvey, on Thursday, July 14.

Staff rushed to help the mum-to-be, guiding her into a room inside the training centre- where she soon gave birth to baby Oliver.

Sinead, of Hullbridge Road, Rayleigh, said: “I was two days overdue so I was staying at my mum's on Canvey with my sister so that I wasn’t on my own at home.

“I was actually cleaning my mum’s bathroom and all of a sudden the contractions started.

“I quickly called my mum and asked her to come back from work to take me to hospital as the baby was coming.

“When we got to the industrial estate I said to my mum, ‘there is no time, the baby is coming now!’

“We rushed into the ambulance training centre and they were great. “They went and got all the equipment and towels and things form the ambulance to make me comfortable.”

Sinead, now a mum-of-three, admits she was worried when her found out none of the Thames Ambulance Service paramedics had ever delivered a baby before.

She was also upset about her partner, Thomas Cuthbert, missing the birth.

She said: “ I called my partner and told him I was going to Southend Hospital but of course I didn’t turn up, so he was calling me asking where I was and then he rushed to Canvey to see his son.

“We also gave Oliver a middle name which was a mix of the two paramedics who delivered him- Michael and Laurence.

“I have two other young children, so I have got my hands full.

“My eldest has been helping out with the baby and has been giving him lots of cuddles.”

Sinead is also mum to three-year-old Anna Liese McCann and her 14-month-old Connie McCann.