The Berkeley cutting on the F6 freeway suddenly gained enormous sentimental value on Wednesday night for first-time parents Tara and Nathan Pegler of Albion Park Rail.They welcomed baby Tayla Therese there, in the back of an ambulance, eight weeks early, while rushing to hospital.Ambulance paramedic Reg Hitchens did the honours while driver Glen Turnbull helped prepare."I left our house in labour and arrived at Wollongong Hospital with our baby in my arms," Mrs Pegler said from her hospital bed yesterday."It was my first trip in an ambulance and I could not have wished for better service," Mrs Pegler said.She was not due to deliver the baby until May, but started having stomach pains about 10pm on Wednesday."At first I thought I just wanted to go to the toilet, but as the pain increased I got worried and woke Nathan," she said."He phoned my midwife Marilyn who, after hearing what I was going through, told me to ring an ambulance straight away."They only took about 15 minutes but it seemed like forever because of the pain."When the baby's head emerged, Mr Turnbull pulled over near the Berkeley exit and prepared instruments for Mr Hitchens to deliver the baby."I felt complete confidence in them and they didn't let me down," Mrs Pegler said.After a 90-minute labour, the baby arrived at 11.25pm weighing 1.815kg and is doing well.Mrs Pegler said fast deliveries ran in the family."Mum had a 30-minute labour with me, but nobody was expecting the baby to come this early," she said.It was a double family celebration - her sister-in-law Karen Pegler is in the hospital room next door, with baby Cohen, also born on Wednesday.