Mom Gives Birth to 5th Child in 2 Minutes

Photo: Instagram/Mary Gorgens

Mary Gorgens didn’t have time for an epidural before her son was born. She didn’t even have time to leave the bedroom. Labor with her fifth child began and ended in just two minutes.

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"It was intense," the Sydney native tells Yahoo Parenting. "I went from zero to 100 within minutes but I didn’t panic. I didn’t have time to even think about the painful contractions. I just went straight into needing to push."

Just moments prior, “I had no inkling, no feeling, no pain,” she tells the Daily Mail about delivering the 8-pound baby at home on Jan. 30. “He was two days early, I really wasn’t expecting it that day.” Nor was the 35-year-old expecting the staggeringly incredible speed with which her son, Brody, now 5 weeks, would enter the world.

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The mother reportedly went to the bathroom shortly after 3 a.m. feeling a “slight twinge” but had to shuffle back into her bedroom because she felt the baby’s head emerging. Her husband, Simon Gorgens, 40, rallied and delivered the boy then and there. “Labour of 2 minutes!” Mary writes of the tot shown in an Instagram shot alongside another photo that she notes was taken by one of the paramedics who arrived later and helped her husband cut the umbilical cord. “Delivered by daddy on our bedroom floor, just like his sister before him!”

That’s right: The duo has done this before. Their previous child was born at home because she too came out quick. Daughter Mila, 2, arrived “on our bedroom floor in 10 minutes,” says Mary, adding that Mila’s sister Sienna wasn’t born in the hospital either.

Photo: Instagram/Mary Gorgens

Sienna, 3, arrived in the family’s car 50 minutes after Mary went into labor. “Simon managed to stop on the median strip,” says the mom of their thwarted dash to the ER. “He ran to my side and her head was already coming out. He grabbed her and delivered her… then we rushed to the hospital again.”

Eldest daughter Ava, 4, was the first roadside delivery. “We got in the car but I told [Simon] I didn’t think we would make it,” says Mary. They didn’t. The little girl “was born at some point along the way, but she was still in her amniotic sack,” the mom recalls. “I was fully clothed and she slipped past everything I was wearing… even my underwear. It was very bizarre.”

Photo: Instagram/Mary Gorgens

Only the Gorgens’ eldest, son Max, 6, entered the world in a hospital. With him, Mary says, “I wasn’t even sure I was in labor. I called my husband and then the pain came really quickly. By the time he got home I was ready to push and I could feel the head.” At the hospital, she says nurses rushed her into a room, stat. “One push and the head was out and one more and then his body came out,” she notes. “We got to the hospital at 10:22 a.m. and Max was born at 10:34 a.m.” From first labor cue to cuddling her newborn took a mere two hours.

For context, The Mayo Clinic reports that the average length of early labor for first-time mothers is six to 12 hours plus up to another few hours for active labor. “It’s often much shorter for subsequent deliveries,” notes an article on their website.

"My friends joke that I could sneeze and a baby would pop out,’ Mary says. With five healthy children, she acknowledges she has a lot to be thankful for – even if epidurals aren’t on the list. “I haven’t had any pain relief in any birth because there hasn’t been enough time…[Each child has] been quicker than the last.” Yet she adds, “I don’t have pains for hours on end beforehand. It’s intense for a short amount of time. It’s pretty crazy.”

Not to mention, blessed that there were no complications with any of her labors. “I’m lucky because even though we weren’t in hospital, at the end of the day they went smoothly and they were all healthy,” she says. “It’s amazing what your body can do.”

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