FRIDAY the 13th proved lucky for one baby boy after he scared his parents by arriving in the footwell of their car.

Baby Theodore was born in the car park of the Royal Bolton Hospital and delivered by his nanna.

Gemma Price welcomed the 7lb 7oz baby boy just three minutes after arriving — at 3.17am— with her partner Allen Thompson and mother Alison Chaisty.

However, nanna had to spring into action after Theo was born with his cord wrapped around his neck and struggling to breathe.

Miss Price, aged 30, said: “When we pulled up in the car park I said ‘I feel like I need to push’

“Allen ran out the car and was banging on the door of the hospital and pressing the buzzer.

“I got out of the car but I knew I wasn’t going to make it to the delivery suite.

“So I just got back in the car and the baby came flying out! My mum had to catch him.

“Then six nurses came running out to help us.”

Miss Price, of Manchester Road, Tyldesley, said she did not think for a second her third baby would come so quickly, after a three-day slow labour with her eight-year-old son Thomas and 10-day labour with her three-year-old daughter Matilda.

She added: “It was snowing heavily and it was pitch black and freezing.

“When he came out he had his cord wrapped around his neck.

“We couldn’t see because it was so dark and we couldn’t hear him breathing.

“My mum got the cord from around his neck —she saved the day really.

“It was quite traumatic and frightening but looking back now it is really nice because he was born in daddy’s car and delivered by nanna. She saved the day.”

The mother-of-three had been sent home from hospital just two hours previously, after being told she was only 2cm dilated.

However, Theo, who was due on January 11, was keen not to hang around any longer.

Mrs Chaisty said the experience was the “scariest but most rewarding” of her life.

The 47-year-old added: “I was really quite worried because Gemma really wanted an epidural and when they said they were sending her home, I said to the nurse ‘she is worried that she will have him at home or in the car getting back to you’.

“And the nurse actually said ‘them things only happen on TV— they are very few and far between. You only ever read about those things.”

Mrs Chaisty, of Woolston Drive, Tyldesley said “instinct took over” when she saw her grandson’s head appear.

She added: “My eyes nearly fell out of my head.

“I couldn’t believe it and then he just flew out into my hands.

“I just kept massaging and rubbing him and I think my hands were so cold it shocked him into breathing.

“I was hoping he wasn’t born on Friday 13, but I have always said it is my lucky day.

“It is something that I will remember for the rest of my life—to deliver him myself was an amazing experience.”

Miss Price and baby Theo were kept in hospital overnight as a precaution but are now recovering well at home.

Mrs Chaisty added: “He is here, he is safe, he is happy and he is gorgeous.

“It could have been a very different situation, we were very lucky.”