Mum speaks about giving birth in a Blackpool bingo hall

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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.

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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.

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