LITTLE Madeleine Ellen Aisthorpe certainly knows how to make an entrance.

On January 13 she chose the iciest day of the year to enter the world – giving her poor mum Adele Cann, 33, a labour from hell in the process.

The medical secretary from Longwood was confronted with an ambulance that could not reach her house, paramedics who only arrived courtesy of the milkman and then five-minute contractions in a 4x4 wedged in by abandoned vehicles.

As she gulped her gas and air, paramedics were eventually authorised to smash windows and release handbrakes to prevent Madeleine entering the world on a back seat.

Adele’s partner, account manager David Aisthorpe, 38, could only look on and hope.

Adele said: “I went into labour on the Tuesday and by early Wednesday on January 13 I had called a taxi.

“They said they couldn’t get closer than Salendine Nook and that was a mile away and up a steep hill.

“We rang the hospital and said ‘what do I do?’

“They said ‘ring the ambulance and hopefully they can get to you’.

“They couldn’t. The man from ambulance control stayed on the line and he was updating us with where they were and the problems they were having.

“They were on stuck on sheet ice. It was 5.30am and we were just waiting.

“At 6.30am they came bursting in on the back of the milkman’s 1960s Land Rover.

“After they arrived it all gets a little bit more hazy for me because they brought the gas and air.

“We were still stuck because the ambulance we needed was a mile down the road.

“Ambulance control sent a paramedic, Alison Kelly, in a 4x4 and she made it to our street at about 7am and I got in with her.

“We hadn’t been going long and we realised we were stuck again. There had been so many crashes cars were all ploughed into each other and had been abandoned in front of us and behind.

“The paramedics were trying to see what was going on and I went into a bit of a panic.

“One said ‘there’s a car in the middle of the street and unless we get the handbrake off we’re not going anywhere’.

“Alison, driving the 4x4, radioed the trust for permission to break the window to start moving the cars. It seemed like ages but eventually they said ‘yes you can.’”

In the end the return of one of the drivers meant that was not necessary and the traffic began to flow.

Adele said: “The contractions were three or four minutes apart and I was feeling the pressure. I was convinced my baby would be born in the back of a 4x4.

“Even Alison the driver was looking a little bit nervy. I was screaming and begging not to run out of gas.”

Despite the urgent 8.45am admission to hospital, Madeleine eventually decided to show her face at 10.21pm that night.

Adele added: “It was amazing – we were sure she was imminent but it’s a day to remember.

“I have to say a big thank you to not just the paramedics, Alison, Glenn Wainwright and Kenny Hopwood, who worked so hard, but the midwives and all the delivery staff at the Calderdale Royal.”

Paramedic Alison said: “It was lovely to catch up with Adele and Madeleine again because most of the time we don’t see people after we get them to hospital.

“I was on nights and had started at 7pm the previous night so at 15 hours it was a long night for me.

“Adele was naturally worried but we were very glad to finally get her there.”