MUM Janine Paull-Sellick paid tribute to ‘amazing’ paramedics, midwives and hospital staff after her early hours dash in labour through the snow to hospital.

She was whisked from her home in Bridport to Dorset County Hospital through the heaviest snowfall for years on an ‘horrendous’ A35 just before giving birth. Now the 26-year-old is thinking of naming her newborn daughter after her midwife or the female paramedic on the ambulance.

Janine said: “The A35 road was absolutely horrendous. It was the Friday night when we had all of that heavy snow. It really was dreadful.

“The paramedics did an amazing job.

“There was thick snow and I was petrified but they were brilliant.”

She added: “I was really worried.

“I thought I might have the baby in the ambulance while we were on the road. But the female driver kept re-assuring me. They did they a great job.”

Janine lives in Rivervale, with husband Colin, 28, and son Connor, four.

They were unable to get their car out when Janine went into labour and called for an ambulance.

It took about an hour to get to the hospital in Dorchester.

She added: “Dorset County Hospital staff were really fantastic too although they were so busy and shortstaffed because of the snow. The midwife I really wanted managed to get in from Maiden Newton despite the weather.

“She was absolutely brilliant.”

Now Janine and plumber Colin are thinking about naming their new daughter after midwife Sarah Bunn or the female paramedic – although they don’t know who she is yet.

Janine said: “I am going to try and find out who the paramedics were.

“I want to send them a card and say thank you.

“Without them and also the Dorset County Hospital things could have turned out very differently.”

Janine said she had complications with her first pregnancy and was warned that she needed to go into hospital for her second child.

She thinks the anxiety of the snowfall and reaching hospital may have brought on her labour.

She added: “It was surreal when I actually gave birth as the curtains were open and there was just thick snow. It didn’t look like Dorchester at all.

“I think it was why I went into labour in the first place, because I was worried about getting to hospital in the snow.”