A Minnesota woman gave birth while driving herself to the hospital as her husband steered the car into the parking lot from the passenger side, The Bemidji Pioneer reports.

Amanda McBride, 29, of Bagley, Minn., left work early to head for the hospital when she suspected that she was about to give birth. En route, she picked up her husband, Joseph Phillips, at home.

McBride drove the 2005 red Chevrolet Cobalt because Phillips suffers seizures, the newspaper says.

As they got near the hospital, her water broke.

"She yelled at me to grab the wheel," Phillips tells The Pioneer. "And then, all of a sudden, I heard this little waa-a-a-a (cry)."

Amanda says she had managed to pull down her pants after her water broke, "and then the baby just came right out."

"I was just sitting on the seat and he just slid out," she says. "It really wasn't bad at all."

Amanda held the baby and turned on the car heater while Phillips managed to steer the car into the hospital parking lot, the newspaper reports.

The 8-pound newborn, also named Joseph, is McBride's third son.

(Posted Doug Stanglin)