A pregnant mother was rushed to hospital after her waters broke as she was spending time with her daughter at the new Ninja Warrior Park in Watford.

Melissa Knight, 41, found out she was pregnant towards the end of last year and was due to undergo a caesarean procedure on August 6 at Lister Hospital in Stevenage.

But Melissa wanted to do something fun with her six-year-old daughter first and decided to go to the new Ninja Warrior Park in Woodside Leisure Park.

She said: “One of my friends told me about Ninja Warrior and how good it was and I thought I definitely have to get my daughter there before the caesarean.”

Melissa, who is from Welwyn Garden City, arranged the trip with her sister and they want to the adventure course on Monday, August 2.

But as Melissa was sitting in the café watching her daughter, she became uncomfortable and started to experience pains.

“I was looking at the clock thinking, ‘there is only 20 minutes to go in the session, as long as I get through them I will be fine’,” she said.

“But I became really uncomfortable and my waters broke as I was sitting. I told my sister that I think my waters have just broke.

“At that point she was the voice of calmness for me so she kept me calm as I didn’t know what to do as I was in such a public place.”

It was then that Melissa decided to run to the toilets and called her husband to pick her up.

However, she could hear staff calling for an ambulance outside.

Melissa was also helped to the medical room, where she started to experience more contractions.

She said: “I think there was a panic that I might end up giving birth there but due to the position of the baby that was never the case. It was always going to have to be a caesarean.”

Paramedics then arrived at the scene and took her to Watford General Hospital.

She added: “It was more intense than I ever expected, it felt like something out of a movie scene. There were four paramedics and it was really dramatic.”

Later that evening Melissa and her family welcomed their new baby boy, who they named Oliver Samurai Knight.

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“It’s a nod to where he wanted to kick his way out,” she said.

Melissa added that the staff who helped her at the warrior park “were just amazing”.

“They were so polite and helpful the staff who helped me,” she said.

“The Ambulance service was also amazing, reassuring and calm.”