A mum gave birth in her car in just FOUR pushes - and credits the swift delivery to three weeks of daily pelvic exercises. <br /><br />Jade Mead, 35, swore by her fitness regime - which included deep squats and side lunges - during her last two pregnancies. She did the exercises to ensure the birth would be as quick and easy as possible.<br /><br />Her second labour happened so quickly she wasn’t able to make it to the hospital in time - and her husband, Ryan, 40, a digital marketer, had to pull his car over and deliver her baby on the roadside. <br /><br />Little Lottie, now four weeks old, popped out in just four pushes in April 26, 2023 weighing 7lbs 2oz. <br /><br />Mum and baby were taken to hospital to be checked over but are now home and healthy. <br /><br />Jade, a fitness coach from Perth, Australia, said: “I had to give birth in the middle of a roadside.<br /><br />"There were no lights, I had no pain relief, and I was screaming with every push. <br /><br />“It all happened so quickly!”<br /><br />Jade had experienced a similar situation with her first daughter, Mali, three.<br /><br />Mali was born three weeks early - which meant Jade was unable to continue her birthing prep exercises to full-term. <br /><br />On December 27 2019, Jade gave birth to Mali in just five hours, weighing 7lbs 2oz.<br /><br />Jade puts her quick births down to her exercise routine. <br /><br />She said: “I focused a lot on hip-opening exercises to prepare for each birth. A lot of them focused on yoga and stretching.<br /><br />“So I was swearing by deep squats, child’s pose, cat-cow pose, deep lunge stretches and side-lunge stretches.<br /><br />“I also drank a lot of raspberry leaf tea, and did a lot of curb walking - where you walk with one foot on the curb, one foot in the road.”<br /><br />She practiced the exact same regime in the last three weeks of her second pregnancy - and her midwife suggested her labour experiences would be similar. <br /><br />Jade carried Lottie to term and her contractions started on April 26 2023 at 7am.<br /><br />They began “very slowly” and herself and Ryan thought her experience would be very different - so they didn’t set off for the hospital straight away. <br /><br />Jade said: “Labour didn’t progress for a very long time - until it did, and it all happened within the last hour!<br /><br />“At 6:30pm, Ryan and I put Mali to bed and left her with my mum. We wanted to put her to bed and bath her ourselves just to know she was safe and sorted. <br /><br />“But because we did that, we ended up leaving too late. At 7pm, we got in the car, and my entire body was shivering and shaking.<br /><br />“Straight away, my contractions became really intense.”<br /><br />While Ryan drove Jade to The Family Centre in the King Edward Memorial Hospital, Subiaco, she attempted to distract herself from all the pain she was having. <br /><br />She said: “I was using anything I could - but I didn’t actually have any pain relief!<br /><br />“I had a TENS machine on my back boosting stimulation to my muscles - I was pressing the button on it every time I had a contraction.<br /><br />“I was squeezing a birthing comb as well - for no other reason than just desperately needing to distract myself!”
