Baby Jax Gough made a speedy arrival into the world this week - in the boot of the family car!

Mum and dad Kat and Nicky were just minutes into their journey from their home in Carew last Wednesday afternoon when it became clear that the youngster - their fourth - wasn’t prepared to wait until they got to Withybush Hospital.

So Nicky pulled up their Mercedes 4x4 into the car park of the former Canaston Bowl and made an urgent phone call to the hospital’s maternity unit.

“They said that a midwife and an ambulance would be on their way, but in the meantime I should get on the back seat of the car,” said 29-year-old Kat. “There was no way I could do that as it was full of three child seats. Luckily, the boot was empty, so that’s where I ended up.

“The paramedics turned up just in time as the baby’s head was ready to come. They didn’t have time to get me on a bed and then the midwife, Pat Stewart, came along and completed the delivery.

“They were all absolutely brilliant and everything went smoothly. It was all so quick - 45 minutes from the time my waters broke - that I didn’t have chance to panic.

“It was only the next day when it sunk in and I thought: “Oh my goodness, what have I done - I’ve given birth in the back of my car!”

Baby Jax, born four days after his due date, weighed in at a healthy eight pounds seven and a half ounces - but still lighter than the birth weights of his brothers Simon, aged eight, Dion, aged six and two-year-old Liam.

Kat, who recently set up a Facebook-based baby gifts business, Funky Monkey, and Nicky, aged 34, were able to bring their latest arrival home from hospital the following day.

“I had actually been in hospital the previous Friday, all ready to have the baby by Caesaerian section beause he was breech,” said Kat. “But then he turned and I was sent home. He evidently wanted to make his own way into the world!”.