Born in the back of a Land Cruiser: baby Vera's surprise roadside welcome

That's how baby Vera came into the world on June 25, at 9.48pm, in the middle of a cold, rainy snap when her father Dane Wilson, delivered his daughter with help from a 000 operator.

Teaghan and Dane Wilson live in Rylstone in the NSW Central Tablelands region with their children, just a couple of doors up from Dane's mother. Speaking from their warm living room, the couple recalled the once-in-a-lifetime experience with a refreshingly pragmatic attitude.

Vera is the couple's fifth child, and previous pregnancies had come and gone with little drama, but Teaghan said she had a feeling about this one.

"I just had this gut feeling, and I told Dane a few times - I said, 'I reckon this baby's going to come at Lue'," Teaghan said.

Teaghan went into labour around 1am on Wednesday, June 25, which didn't stop the couple from getting a few things done first to pass the time.

"We decided during early labour we'd duck over to Dubbo, just to pick the car up," she said.

"We actually stopped at Mudgee Hospital on the way home just to get checked. They were like, 'No, you're fine, go home.' So we did."

Tegan and Dane were home for less than an hour when contractions suddenly ramped up.

"She went from nothing to something," Teaghan said.

"We jumped in the car and headed straight for the hospital again... but we didn't make it."

About five kilometres before Lue, on the stretch between Rylstone and Lue, Teaghan told Dane to pull over.

"I said, 'I can't, there's nowhere to stop' - but there was. So we stopped, right near the turn-off to the motorbike track," Dane said.

With 000 on the line, Dane got step-by-step instructions from the paramedics on what to do next. "They were like, 'What can you see?' and I said, 'Not much... oh wait, I see a long white thing.' They go, 'That's the head.'"

As Vera made her entrance, things got tense. "Her face was covered in stuff and her lips were blue," Dane said.

"But I'd seen it before with animals - I've birthed cows and sheep before, being a country boy - so I knew to just clear her nose and rub her back."

"And then she cried - she came out good."

Still in the back of the Cruiser, both Teaghan and Dane stayed surprisingly calm given the situation. "The lady on 000 said, 'You're very calm,' and I said, 'What else can you do? You just have to get it done."

Wrapped in a big green mink blanket and resting in her mum's arms, Vera was calm and warm by the time paramedics arrived about 15 minutes later.

"They said we'd done everything right," Dane said.

"They were amazing, really reassuring." Despite the weather, the improvised birth in the back of the family's car was surprisingly smooth.

It was a freezing morning, around six degrees with showers, hardly ideal conditions for an impromptu roadside birth. "I was in the boot, and he (Dane) had to open and close the boot door to check on us and keep us warm," Teaghan said.

"We were lucky we had that blanket."

Vera weighed in at 7 pounds 11 ounces and was 51cm long. After a couple of days at Mudgee Hospital to recover and be checked over, the family headed home, where the four older siblings - Ava, Henry, Jagger and Austin were waiting eagerly.

"It's one of those things you expect to see on Facebook reels," Teaghan laughed.

"Not something that happens to you in real life."

At just four days old, Vera is already settling in at home and is getting plenty of love from her siblings and proud parents.