A proud grandma says she is ‘thrilled’ after helping deliver her daughter’s baby in the back seat of her car—and then saving its life.

Shelby Cook was one week overdue when she arrived flustered at her mom’s house in early August.

Her mother Sonja Cook thought she would only be babysitting the couple’s other children while they gave birth at the hospital in South Yorkshire, England, but suddenly she heard her daughter shout, ‘it’s coming,’ from the car.

After finding Shelby lying on the back seat she telephoned for an ambulance.

It was anything but smooth sailing in the following moments—but it was Sonja’s quick thinking that saved Mason’s life due to the “caul birth,” as a part of the unbroken amniotic sac membrane covered the baby’s face.

“The whole time I was telling myself ‘this i

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