'What is going on?' - Bundee Aki's baby born in car ahead of first Lions Test - video Dailymotion

Lions centre Bundee Aki revealed the extraordinary circumstances of the birth of his newborn child

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00:00I want to enjoy my break, enjoy my family time. I haven't seen my family for eight, eight weeks.

00:07I have a newborn child, which I haven't met yet.

00:11So, yeah, yeah, a girl, girl. So, she was born in Brisbane, when we were playing in Brisbane.

00:19So I haven't, I haven't met her, her name's Anya. So I'm looking forward to go meet my newborn child

00:23and go from there. How difficult has it been? Jeez, that's a revelation. How difficult has

00:28it been for you? No, look, pretty small. Right.

00:31All the woman, all the woman. If you only knew the story, what happened, it's a funny story in itself,

00:36but. Oh, feel free. It was a good day. Well, how did you find out? Where, where, where were you?

00:42We had time doing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, you can't leave us hanging. Probably the hotel.

00:47I knew we were like overdue, unless it caused me. She was like, ah, he brought her hip and birth in,

00:51but go to the hospital, but in contraction the day. Yeah, fair enough. And go to the hospital.

00:54So we're getting ready for the team meeting, free man, she, whatever it is. She pulled me,

00:59she was like, okay, um, on the way to the hospital. So fine. Um, he said, yeah, five minutes later,

01:06she sees the photo, her water broke. I was like, okay, cool, man. All right. Uh, you're almost

01:10there, something 30, 40 minutes away from the hospital. I was like, uh, he'll be all right.

01:13Mom's driving. Um, 10 minutes later, she video pulled and I was like, oh, what is going on?

01:18I saw baby on the photo, on the video call. Oh my God. She had the car on the way to the hospital.

01:23No way. So she's, they're both, uh, strong and healthy. So happy days.