Baby Eve's dramatic roadside appearance

Baby Eve Fowler made a very dramatic entrance into the world on Saturday morning to the surprise of her parents, Denise O’Reilly and Ray Fowler, who were en route to Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda.
Little Eve was in a great hurry to be born and was certainly not going to wait until her mum made it from their Kells home to the hospital.
Instead, the bouncing baby girl was delivered by paramedics in the back of the car after dad Ray pulled in to meet the ambulance at the bus stop on the Kells Road at the Blackwater Retail Park, outside Navan.
Little Eve arrived six days early, weighing 6lbs 8 oz at 10.10am.
Despite her speedy arrival, both mum and baby are doing great and returned to their home in Cherryhill Court, Kells, the next day. Denise and Ray are also parents to three-year-old Mia, who is delighted with her little sister.
“Eve is doing great. She is a very good baby and is sleeping and feeding great,” said Denise this week.

Denise, Ray and Denise's sister set off in the car for Drogheda after Denise began having contractions at 8.30am, but the pains got worse while they were on the road.

“The pain started to come bad. We were on our way to Drogheda and I got a bad pain when I was in the back of the car. I was afraid that the baby was coming,” she recalled.
Her sister, Joanne Richardstown, who was with them, rang the Lourdes Hospital and they told her to phone for an ambulance. The ambulance left Navan and they met on the road at the bus stop on the Kells Road.
“We pulled in at Woodies and she was born five minutes later,” recalled Denise.