Within minutes the paramedics arrive. Surprisingly, they don't insist that I go to the hospital, and I return home to show my husband our new daughter. OK, so this didn't really happen. But it could have. Women give birth like this all the time.
Many women give birth with little or no warning.
I've enclosed some of their stories below. By the way, my last child could have easily been a supermarket birth. I gave birth in my bathroom before I had the chance to tell my husband I was in labor. I always thought, how rude and insensitive. The fastest birthing I ever attended took a minute and a half.