IT WAS a real family affair for proud parents Charlotte and Gary Burchell last week as Charlotte's auntie Joy Easterbrook delivered a healthy baby girl — all while following instructions from the ambulance service on speaker phone. Step-by-step directions were given by Adam Greaves from the service's control centre — with baby Rosie Sarah Burchell being delivered in record time on the living room floor of the family's Princetown home. At 3.05am, Charlotte awoke with contractions — but thinking she had enough time to get to hospital she left it for more than 30 minutes before she woke up Gary and her mum Sue Finch. Charlotte's auntie, Joy Easterbrook, also from Princetown, had arrived to look after Charlotte and Gary's son William, 2, while Charlotte, Gary and Sue got ready to go to the hospital. But with contractions speeding up and Charlotte now being unable to move from the floor, she knew the baby would have to be delivered at home. 'I thought I had time, but within the space of ten minutes I knew I wasn't going to be able to make it to hospital,' said Charlotte, an orthopaedic theatre nurse at Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital. 'My husband and mum were getting ready for the hospital and I just shouted that I wasn't going anywhere and to call an ambulance.' But no-one knew just how eager baby Rosie was to make an appearance in this world. The ambulance service was called at 4.15am and paramedics were on their way, but Rosie was not waiting for anyone and within 17 minutes she was born at 4.32am, weighing in at 6lb 8oz. Joy, the proud 'honorary midwife', said: 'When I got to Charlotte she was on all fours and there was barely a minute between contractions — it all progressed really quickly — and then Charlotte screamed for us to get her an ambulance. 'Adrenaline took over for all of us and we were then cool as a cucumber. 'I believe this was a textbook birth and it was over as quick as that. It's even more special that I helped to deliver my great niece.' Charlotte said the family was grateful to Adam Greaves for giving the family step by step instructions for the safe delivery of baby Rosie. She said: 'He was excellent and it turned out it was his birthday as well. He was telling us exactly where the ambulance was and said that he would stay on the phone until the paramedics were inside the house, he was amazing. 'And then when the paramedics arrived they even brought in a little pink hat for her. 'I had a lot of support from my mum, auntie and Gary — I couldn't have done it without them and I will always be grateful.'