After the horrific birthing experience of her first two children, Noah and Jack, Amie Vrbiak was warned that she only had a 60 per cent chance of delivering Raphael naturally.

When scans revealed Raphael was stuck in a breech position, Ms Vrbiak and her husband Joe – who live at Willigobung, near Tumbarumba – had been booked in to have a caesarean section this Friday.

But when Ms Vrbiak felt the contractions come on quickly on Monday afternoon, she knew Raphael was not waiting.

Home alone in the foot of the mountains near Laurel Hill, Ms Vrbiak phoned ahead for an ambulance as the contractions increased from 30-minute intervals to three minutes.

With no time to call in the care flight chopper, an ambulance made a mercy dash to Ms Vrbiak’s house, collecting a nurse from the Tumbarumba en route to Wagga Base Hospital.

Radioing for assistance from Wagga paramedics, the ambulance was forced to pull over just past Rosewood, about 60 kilometres from Wagga, about 5.15pm.

Fearing that Raphael would be born bottom first, the paramedics and nurse tried to relax Ms Vrbiak, but overcome by the urge to bare down, Ms Vrbiak said she gave in to the instinct to push.

“It just happened so quickly,” Ms Vrbiak said.

“I kept pushing and they were saying ‘don’t push, don’t push’.

“I remember getting really cranky with the nurse and she snapped at me, then we both apologised after it was over,” she said with a laugh.

Once the paramedics had felt Raphael’s head crowning, his birth was quick and uncomplicated.

“I just can’t believe it,” Ms Vrbiak said as she nursed Raphael in her arms yesterday at Wagga Base Hospital.

Surrounded by two-and-a-half-year-old Jack and one-and-a-half-year-old Noah, her husband Joe shared the same elation.

“I was shocked,” Mr Vrbiak said.

“I thought here we go, another two-day thing.”

Ms Vrbiak had been in labour with Jack for nine hours before forceps and suction were used to help with his delivery, while Noah had been born after a 16-hour labour.

“The last two (births) were pretty horrific and full-on,” Mr Vrbiak said.

“They both got stuck very badly.”

The pain was forgotten yesterday as the boys gathered to meet their little brother and Joe and Amie bonded with the newest addition to their family.