Gatton mum's pain not food poisoning | Offbeat

Nikkii Joyce | 4th October 2008

Happy families (front-back): Baby Sophie, Bianca Ost, Paul Mudra and Colin Slater.

THE whirlwind arrival of Gatton's newest resident Sophie Amelia Ost can't have been too unexpected.

The past two years have been like a vortex for her 23-year-old mother Bianca Ost.

Mrs Ost's initial fears that an uncomfortable stomach pain about 7pm Thursday might be "food poisoning" was rubbished by her husband Dave who correctly guessed his wife  was in labour.

Gatton paramedic Paul Mudra, 35, said that when he and student paramedic Colin Salter arrived, they knew it was going to be a close call if Mrs Ost was going to make it to Toowoomba Hospital.

Too close, apparently.

The 3.6 kilogram little girl, with a full head of hair, unwilling to wait any longer, arrived on the roadside near Helidon Spa.

"The first time we stopped it was next to the Grantham Pub, but there was no sign of imminent arrival then," Mr Salter said.

"But then we had to stop again and this time she was crowning."

Mrs Ost and her first daughter, now safe and sound at Toowoomba Hospital, will rest a few days before returning home in preparation for her parent's first look at their new granddaughter next month.

"I don't think they knew what was going to happen when I left two years ago," she said.

She'd planned a backpacking holiday in Australia from her home in Germany.

Things took a completely new turn when a temporary vegetable picking job in Gatton introduced the wide-eyed tourist to her husband-to-be, farm foreman David Ost.

Twenty months ago, their  first child, son Cayles, was born with David chasing the paramedics in a car behind.

"They were better than my husband (was)," she laughed.