“I can’t believe we had a baby in a car.”

I love that quote. Sounds like the title of an Adam Sandler rom-com or a John Mulaney Netflix comedy special.

But for Corey Farrell, whose wife Kayla did indeed deliver their second child in the front seat of the couple’s 2023 Chevy Equinox earlier this week, it perfectly summed up the Millbrook couple’s very serious adventure that began on Monday with early morning contractions and ended Thursday when 8-pound, 14-ounce Charlee Mae was released from Central DuPage Hospital.

But all the drama occurred in a much shorter time span: an hour and three minutes.

The intention was to get to Mercy Medical Center in Aurora on Oct. 20 after Kayla began having sharper than usual contractions around 7:30 a.m. Corey Farrell, on his way to work as a union rep

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