Dumbarton mum 'forever grateful' to paramedics who delivered baby at side of M8

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A Dumbarton mum has said she’ll be forever grateful to the ambulance crew who helped safely deliver her baby ... on the hard shoulder of the M8.Gillian Mossner was in the late stages of labour and on her way to The Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley to give birth to her third child when she was forced to stop.Travelling with her husband, Nicky, who is from Switzerland, Gillian, 29, said she couldn’t sit in the car any longer with the “contractions becoming so intense”.The couple pulled into the hard shoulder of the M8, around 500 yards away from the exit leading to the roundabout for Glasgow Airport.She explained: “Nicky called emergency services for an ambulance to pick us up and stayed on the line to them until the ambulance arrived while preparing to deliver our baby in the back of our car on the hard shoulder.”Nicky, 32, a software engineer, said: “Gillian got out the car and managed to get into the back seat.“She was lying awkwardly on the folded down seat.“The guy on the phone was guiding me in getting ready for the baby to come but I couldn’t see the baby’s head yet.“He stayed on the phone until the ambulance and police arrived, with Gillian going through contractions the whole time.“When the ambulance crew came, Gillian managed to get into that.”After the call was taken, an ambulance crew of Victoria McNiven, and Rosie Mccolgan, were dispatched, arriving within seven minutes.Gillian added: “Fortunately, Rosie and Victoria arrived in the ambulance extremely quickly and I was taken in the back of the ambulance while my husband followed behind on our way to the hospital.“Very quickly after we drove off with blue lights on, my waters broke in the back of the ambulance.“Rosie was with me in the back at that time.