Geoff MacGillivray of Barrie says sitting around watching medical shows has paid off.  

His wife agrees and so might his new baby boy.

“He kept saying we have to get in the car, have to get in the car,” says Samantha MacGillivray. “And I was like nope the baby's coming now.”

Samantha and Geoff MacGillivray knew baby Logan was on his way. Samantha went into labour yesterday morning, but was sent back home. The baby wasn't ready. But even as her contractions got closer together she waited. Her water hadn’t broken and she didn't want to get sent back home again.

The MacGillivrays say it all happened so fast – 15 minutes and as Samantha screamed in pain, Geoff was on the phone with 911, a dispatcher coaching him in how to deliver his child.

“Next thing you know I'm on the phone with 911 and she's walking me through it,” says Geoff. “She was asking me do you see any body parts, do you see a head?”

When Geoff saw his son’s head, he knew something was wrong.

“His face was purple, it was terrifying,” he says.

As Geoff talked to the 911 dispatcher, paramedic Larry Perkins was en-route to the MacGillivrays’ home. When he arrived, he knew he had only minutes to save Logan's life.

“The head was out, the chest was partially exposed, the umbilical cord was around his neck and you could see that deep, deep purple colour,” Perkins says.

Perkins began to work on the baby.

“After some stimulation the baby gave a quick little cry and I think everybody was happy about that,” he says.

Dad adds, “I started clapping and crying it was just the best sound I could have ever heard.”

He calls the birth of his son his movie moment; he had only seen this sort of thing happen on TV.

“A little like the movies, a little like science class when they show you that birth video that no one wants to see,” he says.

The MacGillivrays of course will never forget the day Logan was born. And Geoff says he will never stop reminding his wife that he was right when he said it was time to go to the hospital.

“She’s going to put it in writing and I'm going to put it up on the wall,” he says.

The MacGillivrays will take baby Logan home tonight; they are excited to introduce him to their daughter Lily and are looking forward to telling Logan this story as he grows up.