Baby can't wait; mom delivers child in car on way to hospital in Anderson Township

ANDERSON TOWNSHIP, Ohio - When you're a police dispatcher, you never know what kind of calls will come in. Friday morning for Hamilton County Dispatcher Dana Layton was about helping bringing life into the world.

Layton took a transfer call from Clermont County. It was from a frantic father-to-be, Andy Marsh, with his 25-year-old wife about to deliver a baby. The couple was just blocks from the hospital on Five Mile Road when he told Layton he didn't know if he could make to Mercy Anderson Hospital on time.

"She's having the baby in the car," said Marsh. "The baby is out, the baby is out," Marsh cried out.

"You've got a little boy?" asked Layton. "Congratulations."

Layton instructed Marsh to stop his black Ford Fusion.

"She's holding the baby in the front seat," said Marsh. "Oh, my god," Marsh said in a stunned voice on the 911 call.

"That's a heck of the way to come into the world," said Layton to Marsh. "Are you calmed down now?"

Marsh responded, "As calm as I can be."

Listen to the full 911 call here (Note to mobile users, go to the browser version of wcpo.com to listen to the call):