A DAD and his mother-in-law were forced to play midwife when wife Lora gave birth on the front seat of their Land Rover.
Michael Corcoran, 37, said: “Her waters broke on the driveway. We managed to squeeze her in the car – and then 250 yards up the road she had the baby.”
No stranger to unusual experiences in top-of-the-range cars, Lora Corcoran’s shock delivery came three decades after the mum-of-four was herself taken home from Princess Margaret Hospital’s maternity ward in the back of a white Rolls Royce by parents Dawn and Tony Humphreys. 
Now back at home in Shrivenham, healthy little Orla’s appearance on Friday afternoon came as a relief to her mum and dad. 
After three boys – all under five years old – Lora was desperate for a girl. “I have a really close relationship with my mum,” the 31-year-old said. “I think it’s different with daughters.”
Dawn, 58, delivered the baby on Shrivenham High Street – being talked through the process by a 999 operator. 
“Mike wasn’t doing a very good job of taking Lora’s trousers off,” joked Dawn, who took over as makeshift midwife. 
“I delivered Lora in the front passenger seat. She came out like a slippery fish - me and Mike were desperate to see if she was a girl.”
“It was surreal,” Michael added. 
Paramedics arrived 20 minutes later, taking Lora to Swindon’s Great Western Hospital in the back of an ambulance.
Lora, of Shrivenham,  says that she has already started to spoil her new girl – born a healthy 7lbs 2oz. Pointing out a stack of outfits, she smiled: “These are all her clothes. I’m spoiling her already.”
For Dawn, Lora’s keenness to have a girl after a line of sons is not surprising. After giving birth to four boys, Dawn herself was desperate for a daughter.
She said: “I wanted a girl. I wanted all of them to be girls. 
“I had four boys at first and then I had a girl. Before the fourth child my husband said if you have a girl, I’ll bring her back home in a Rolls Royce.” 
Tony came good on his promise, hiring a white Rolls Royce for the trip home from PMH with Lora in 1987. 
A snap of the unusual hospital transport made it to the pages of the Adver.
Dawn went on to have another daughter. But Michael hopes that they won’t follow his in-laws’ example. 
Relieved to have a daughter, he joked: “I’m 37, I didn’t want to continue forever.”
The couple say that their “strong-minded” girl is settling in well to her new home.
But the boys are yet to be convinced by the baby’s name. Instead of Orla, they’re calling their sister Olaf - after the character in the Disney film Frozen. 
But Orla’s proved a hit with her brothers. “Yesterday, my son asked if we can keep her,” Lora laughed.