BABY Isabelle Smith made a dramatic entrance into the world – starting life in the front seat of her parents’ car.

Weighing just 5lb 11oz, little Isabelle was in no mood to hang about, with mum Angela giving birth in the front of her car, outside a maternity unit.

She had dashed to hospital with husband Rob from their New Forest home, after her waters broke in the early hours.

The mother-of-three said: “I woke up about 1.30am in a bit of pain. I’d had a bit of a false alarm about three weeks ago and really wasn’t in the process of working out whether it was labour.

“I’d gone downstairs and made a cup of tea and about 3.10am my waters broke.

“My other labours hadn’t been quick – my daughter was over eight hours and my son was 19 hours.

“But because I was in such pain we left straight away. I was in agony on the journey. When we got to the hospital car park Rob went to get a ticket and as he came back I said ‘you’ve got to get somebody’.

“I just knew this was a bit different. I was gripping on to the door handle and just felt the uncontrollable urge to push.

“Rob ran off to get someone, which felt like a lifetime but couldn’t have been long at all and by the time two care assistants arrived, I could feel her head.

“Two minutes later she was born at 4.52am.”

Angela, of Nelson Close, New Milton, added: “The staff were amazing. At the end of the day the midwife wasn’t expecting a woman to give birth in their car park and they were so prepared. They even remembered a towel to cover the windscreen.

“They were brilliant. They took the baby straight upstairs as it was cold and they even cleaned the car for us. We couldn’t have been cared for better.

“I do vividly remember thinking that it was daylight and hoped no-one got up, opened their curtains and had a bit of a shock.”

Isabelle was born on Thursday outside St Mary’s Maternity Hospital in Poole with both mother and baby allowed home by lunchtime to introduce the new arrival to big sister Chantel, 14 and brother, Matthew, three.