A mum ‘hit the jackpot’ after giving birth to her new baby boy - at a bingo hall.
Tammy Hall, 30, joked she now has a ‘full house’ after her fourth child, Teddie Hall, arrived thanks to the actions of quick-thinking staff at the venue.
Tammy Hall, 30, joked she now has a ‘full house’ after her fourth child, Teddie Hall, arrived thanks to the actions of quick-thinking staff at the venue.
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00:00 Who could have thought you'd come into Bingo to play Bingo and get money but you get a
00:02 baby pig?
00:03 Teddy!
00:04 I come to play Bingo and I give birth outside in an ambulance.
00:10 I started having pains and the ambulance come and I pushed and that was it, he was out.
00:17 So you'd actually been having a game of Bingo when the baby went to labour?
00:22 Yes, I run off and that was it.
00:25 Stuck in the toilet, didn't come out for about half an hour and then the ambulance
00:29 turned up at the bed and that was me done.
00:31 Did he confuse you with that big dummy in Teddy?
00:34 No.
00:35 It was five days late so I was expecting him anyway but I had contractions from the night
00:39 before and then I was told it would be about two or three days so mum said come to Bingo
00:45 so I come to Bingo and then little did I know my price was going to be a baby.
00:49 Did the co-members of staff all help?
00:51 I did, yes.
00:52 There was two, Karen and Larry, they come to my rescue.
00:56 And what did they do to help you?
01:00 Stay by my side, hold my hand and then come with me towards the ambulance.
01:06 So what was it like when you got in the ambulance and you had your little baby Teddy?
01:12 It was amazing, it's nice to see the end of the light at the tunnel after all that pain.
01:18 I came into the main hall and a lady spoke to me and said that there's an emergency in
01:23 the ladies toilet at which point I went into the toilets and found Tammy and her mum in
01:31 the toilets.
01:32 Tammy was obviously in a lot of distress so we went straight on the phone to the ambulance
01:37 service and got in touch with them straight away and then they started to give us instructions
01:43 and at that point I handed the phone over to mum.
01:48 A lady came out to me and said there's a lady in labour in the toilets, there's two
01:54 gentlemen in there, she might want a bit of lady comfort so I ran in and I sat in the
02:00 toilet and told Tammy to squeeze my hand as hard as she wanted and I remember what it
02:05 was like with mine.
02:06 It was earlier in the night we were just talking about how we were both, with Teddy and mine,
02:13 we were both late and both in active labour from the day before.
02:18 It was weird, I jinxed it I'm sure, I jinxed it.
02:22 Do you deliver many babies?
02:25 No, never, never.
02:27 So when you came in for your shift that day was this something that you were expecting
02:33 to do?
02:34 No, absolutely not, one million percent not.
02:40 It's really exciting, we were so chuffed that the team were there and ready to help
02:46 at the time when they were needed and then they really stepped up and it's been fantastic
02:51 and I just met Teddy and he's gorgeous.
02:52 We're used to dealing with lots of things but having babies is not usually one of them.
02:56 It's not part of the training?
02:57 It's not part of the training, no.