A Craigieburn mum has praised her 10-year-old son for calling triple-0 after she gave birth at home.
Epenesa Tamate went into labour with her seventh son at 2.30am on July 22.
The labour was so brief that Mrs Tamate gave birth in the hallway of her Edington Way home.
“When I feel the baby come out, I lie down and push,” she said.
“He had the cord wrapped around his neck so I tried to take it off, then lay on my left side and pushed him out. Then I lay with him.”
After delivering her son, Mrs Tamate screamed out for her husband, Tui, to call an ambulance.
But it was her quick-thinking son, Chris, who made the call after finding his mum in the hallway outside the toilet.
Mrs Tamate said she was very proud of her son.
Two female police officers were the first to arrive at the house about 2.45am.
Mrs Tamate said the officers wrapped her and the baby in blankets and checked her over while they waited for paramedics.
Mrs Tamate and the baby were taken to The Northern Hospital.
Mrs Tamate said both she and the baby, who is yet to be named, were doing well.
