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BY ANGELA DAIDONE

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Talk about "Are we there yet?"

A baby boy born Monday morning could not wait until his parents got to the hospital so he made his entrance into the world on the side of the Garden State Parkway in Elmwood Park.

The father was driving his wife to The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood when it became clear the baby would not wait, a report on northjersey.com stated.

The man pulled over on the northbound shoulder just before the exit for Route 80 and called 911, state police said.

The 6:31 a.m. call came in as a person needing medical assistance, but a minute later, Troopers Chris McComb and Kris Towman were told it was a woman in labor. The troopers found the couple's Honda Pilot seven minutes later, parked on the shoulder near Exit 158.

"It happened as we were pulling up," Towman said of the delivery. "The father had wrapped the baby in his coat. They were just sitting there waiting for further assistance."

The report said that the dad delivered the boy, the couple's third child, from the driver's seat with his wife on the front passenger side. Trooper McComb, who is also an EMT, checked the baby's vital signs from the back seat of the SUV.

"Our main concern was the health and welfare for the mother and the baby, so once we got over that, we were astonished to say the least," Towman said in the report.

Mother, father and baby, whose names were not released, were taken to St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson via ambulance.