The baby of a Poundmaker First Nation woman was born on the way to hospital in the Battlefords over the weekend.

WPD Ambulance operations manager Jason Toovey says it all began at about 5:05 a.m Sunday.

They got a call from the Cut Knife Ambulance asking them to take a patient for them on Highway 40.

“Our staff took over care of the patient, and at 5:20, the baby boy was born.”

Both mother and child are said to be doing fine.

Toovey estimates WPD personnel deliver a baby en route to hospital roughly once a year.