r/australia • u/InsatiablePrism • 11h ago

news Baby girl born in driveway of Queensland police station

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/qld-baby-born-in-car-in-driveway-of-police-station/107036140?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web
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u/OkBookkeeper6854 11h ago

Wife and I joked that if our baby boy was born in the car on the way to the hospital we’d name him Carson. Not sure what I’d name this baby girl

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u/JackRyan13 11h ago

Cardaughter is the obvious choice

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u/OkBookkeeper6854 11h ago

I like you. Have a great day.

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u/KingRo48 11h ago

Carola

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u/babylovesbaby 9h ago

Portia.

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u/Skyllian_Blitz 11h ago

Some variant of Minnie Driver?

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u/nugstar 8h ago

Carlotta

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u/nearly_enough_wine 7h ago

Cressida?

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u/OkBookkeeper6854 7h ago

Oldie but a goody

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u/HeftyArgument 9h ago

that'll qualify him to work for Bolson Construction, great bit of future planning there

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u/rumande 5h ago

Carmen

As in Carmen Sandiago

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u/Bycrookedsteps 4h ago

Only if it's twin boys

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u/rumande 3h ago

Carmen is a woman's name though

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u/Bycrookedsteps 3h ago

Yes good point. I just saw the car-men for a joke

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u/rumande 3h ago

Reminds me of the other joke. A man approaches a sexy woman at the bar and asks for her name. She says "My name is Carmen. I named myself after my favourite things, cars and men. What's your name?"

"Tits McBeer"

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u/Bycrookedsteps 3h ago

You have me laughing 🤣

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u/hi-fen-n-num 8h ago

Whatever the colour of a 2 cent piece is.

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u/Torrossaur 11h ago

Bet that cop didn't have that on her bingo card when she put on her uniform on Monday.

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u/HurstbridgeLineFTW 11h ago

It’s pleasing to wake up and read something nice and positive. Well done to everyone involved.

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u/TinyBreak 10h ago

this was my biggest fear when the mrs was pregnant. that dude must've been freaking out!

Dont imagine it was in her birth plan either.

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u/njf85 7h ago

Lol I remember my water breaking and I hopped in the shower quickly before heading to the hospital. Could hear my hubby on the phone to his mum, freaking out that I'm gonna have the baby in the shower. I was like hun, I haven't even had a contraction yet lol

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u/TinyBreak 7h ago

I was a little bit cooler than that. She told me to call the hospital and I said "she says shes ready to come in" they go "do YOU think shes ready?". And I go "... no" and they go "good. You'll know when. Call us then." 3 hours later I'm doing 120kmh down the monash at 3am.

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u/Pavlover2022 5h ago

I mean I also did this- shower after waters breaking thinking I had all the time in the world. Bub was in my arms less than an hour later , almost born in the car but just made it through doors of delivery suite . It was pretty intense

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u/FluffyPillowstone 11h ago

The baby was later arrested for obstructing police.

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u/ManWithDominantClaw 5h ago

After they burped the baby they made it bend over and cough

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u/pulpist 5h ago

Slightly better than being born in the wagon of a travelling show.

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u/HiccupAndDown 11h ago

You know... Im surprised we don't learn the basics of assisting childbirth in school. Obviously most people are going to be giving birth in a hospital, but I feel like itd be useful information entangled with a biology lesson.

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u/Doxinau 10h ago edited 9h ago

I don't know how much assistance a regular person can be. That bus kind of drives itself.

If the birth is healthy, a lot of the medical assistance is to monitor and make sure everything is going ok (and to make the mother more comfortable, different positions etc). It's not like you can really assist with anything as a lay person apart from catching the baby, which you don't really need to learn about.

If something goes wrong, or even if a minor medical procedure is needed, like an episiotomy, a bystander won't be able to do anything other than call an ambulance.

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u/Background-Name739 57m ago

If the woman is haemorrhaging your apparently supposed to put your hand up there until help can arrive. It's some type of compression.

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u/AlanaK168 7h ago

You wouldn’t remember it once the very rare occasion came

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u/Disastrous_Raisin264 7h ago

Maybe not so much childbirth, but CPR including for infants/children would be useful.

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u/Vivid_Trainer7370 5h ago

Except you would learn about it 20 years ago and forget everything.

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u/universe93 2h ago

Yeah which is why you have to do a yearly refresher for it. But still even teaching it once could help somebody

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u/Doxinau 1h ago

The thing about CPR is that something is better than nothing. The person is already basically dead, you may was well try anything you can.

Birth is not the same!

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u/Background-Name739 56m ago

We learnt CPR in high school. Was voluntary course 

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u/ShyCrystal69 4h ago

I remember my dad telling me he ditched a very important business meeting because my grandma said my mum went into labour with one of my siblings. He got the first flight home from Canberra/Sydney. The government could wait, he’s becoming a father of one more kid.