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Published: Feb. 28, 2008 at 4:35 PM
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ARLINGTON HEIGHTS, Ill., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A suburban Chicago couple said a 911 dispatcher guided them through the birth of their child when the baby came while they were driving to the hospital.

Layne Morsch and his wife, TC, said their daughter was born in the front seat of their Nissan Altima before they could make it from their Lake Zurich, Ill., home to Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, Ill., the Chicago Tribune reported Thursday.

TC Morsch said she could feel the baby coming when they were still two miles from the hospital. She said they had waited to go to the hospital because she had been in labor for several hours before giving birth to her first two children, Jonah, 5, and Eli, 3.

Dispatcher James Kohl, whose sister had once taken an organic chemistry class taught by Layne Morsch at DePaul University, said he had handled emergency labor calls before, but never one that was so far advanced.

"He said his wife's giving birth and the baby is halfway out," Kohl said.

He guided the couple through the birth of their 7-pound, 5-ounce daughter.

"She came out and she started to cry," TC Morsch said, adding that it was a wonderful sound.

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