I Pushed Once': Woman Delivers Own Baby on 45-Minute Drive to Hospital

Jennifer Russell makes childbirth look as easy as a Sunday afternoon drive -- literally. It may not have been a Sunday afternoon, but Russell delivered her daughter with one push on the car ride to the birthing center as her husband captured it on video while driving.

"I just kept making sure the frame was good and that I was staying on the road," proud father Zachary said.

Watch the ABC News report here (Warning: Content may be graphic for some readers):

ABC reported the Mansfield, Texas, mother as saying that she never thought daughter Willow's birth would happen that fast.

"I pushed once and I felt pretty good," she said.

ABC has more from the Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland Marjorie Greenfield about rapid labors:

"About 1 percent of women break their water before they go into labor," said Greenfield. "It's usually a big gush, but sometimes it's more of a constant trickle." Either way, "you can usually tell."

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"Everyone's been telling them, 'Pain, pain, pain,' and they don't recognize what contractions feel like," said Greenfield of the women some would call lucky. "But that's pretty rare."

Even for veteran moms who've been there, done that, labor can be sneaky.

"If their first baby came in two hours, the next baby may be the one they're going to deliver in the car on the way to the hospital," said Greenfield. "The second delivery, on average, is usually half the length of the first."

Although few women would choose the backseat of a Ford Compact over a birthing center, Greenfield said quick labors are usually a sign that everything is going smoothly.

"This is the way nature intended," she said. "Labor wasn't intended to happen in hospitals hooked up to IVs."

Greensfield said that it's important to dry off the baby and put it on the skin of the mother, which is appears Russell did in the video. She even unwrapped the umbilical cord from around Willow's neck.

The parents are even hoping to give Willow the car she was born in when she is of age.