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Surprised Paramedics Help Woman Deliver Twin Boys : Birth: Responding to a reported seizure, they discover a Reseda resident in labor. A second child is born in the ambulance.

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Labor Day weekend took on a whole new meaning Sunday as paramedics responding to a reported seizure instead helped a Reseda woman deliver twin boys, a Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said.

The 26-year-old woman, whose name was not released, was seven months pregnant when she unexpectedly went into labor around 1:15 p.m. Sunday, said spokesman Brian Humphrey. A nervous caller reported the labor as a seizure. But when paramedics arrived at the apartment in the 7000 block of Etiwanda Avenue, they found a woman giving birth to the first of two babies.

Paramedics assisted with the delivery, then rushed the first baby to Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Humphrey said. The other child, a breech delivery--which means the baby was delivered feet first--was born in the ambulance on the way to the same hospital.

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Humphrey said the mother, who has two other children, is doing well. Despite being born two months premature, the two boys were in good shape, officials said.

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