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Rookie Taxi Driver Delivers Baby in Car

Saturday, November 12, 2005 7:54:50 PM

This photo made available Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005 by Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill. shows baby Gabrielle, born Friday, Nov. 11, 2005 after her mother gave birth in a taxicab en route to the hospital. When Gabrielle's mother realized she was having the baby, taxi driver Nedal Haddad immediately pulled onto the shoulder of the highway. He said the woman's relatives started screaming and were too panicked to offer assistance, so he ordered them out of the car, rushed to the back seat and delivered the baby himself. (AP Photo/Edward Hospital)LISLE, Ill. (AP) - Nedal Haddad of Chicago understood his new job as a cab driver entailed delivery — taking passengers from one point to another, that is. He couldn't have imagined it involved delivering babies.

That's what happened Friday, about a week into his new job, when the 37-year-old picked up a pregnant woman in suburban Plainfield and began driving her to nearby Edward Hospital.

Before they could arrive at the Naperville hospital, the woman — whose mother and sister were also in the cab — began giving birth.


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