Forest Green Rovers defender Jili Buyabu will be back helping his side’s promotion push – just two days after delivering his own baby.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old stepped up in the early hours of Thursday morning when his wife went into late stage labour and he did not have time to get her to hospital.<\/p>\n
According to Forest Green boss Robbie Savage, Buyabu rang him at 06:50 GMT on Thursday morning to say he had delivered his own child before paramedics could get there.<\/p>\n
“Jili Buyabu had rung me at a quarter to 12 [on Wednesday] saying I’ve got to take my partner to the hospital as she’s due but it was a false alarm,” Savage told BBC Radio Gloucestershire.<\/p>\n
“He woke me up this morning at 10 to seven and said ‘gaffer, I’ve just delivered the baby. I said ‘What you?’ And he said, ‘yeah’. <\/p>\n
“He was with his partner, the contractions started and he didn’t have time to get to the hospital or get the paramedics there so Jili has actually delivered the baby. <\/p>\n
“When the paramedics got there he put them on the phone and he said ‘tell him’. They said yes he’s delivered the baby. At 22 years of age I am so proud of him. For him to do that it is a brilliant story.”<\/p>\n
Mother, baby and defender are all doing well according to the Forest Green boss who said Buyabu will get the rest of the day off before reporting back to training.<\/p>\n
Forest Green, who are fifth in the National League and pushing for promotion, face mid-table Aldershot at home on Saturday (15:00 GMT).<\/p>\n
Buyabu, who has been on loan from Sheffield United all season, is in line for a starting berth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Forest Green Rovers defender Jili Buyabu will be back helping his side’s promotion push – just two days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-521211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}