Five years after she delivered one of her twin boys in the back of an ambulance speeding along a Saskatchewan highway, Samantha Warren has finally had a chance to meet and thank the paramedics who helped her.

Warren was driving from Saskatoon to North Battleford, Sask., a journey of more than 100 kilometres, when she went into labour and had to pull over on the side of the road. Two paramedics, Luc Duval and Tom Barbier, responded and helped deliver the first of her twin boys, Aiden, en route to the hospital.

The second twin, Kayden, was born at the hospital 45 minutes later.

“I was just more scared because I knew the first one was breech, that’s what scared me the most,” Warren told reporters the day after she gave birth. “I wanted to make sure he was doing OK.”

Warren, who never got the chance to thank the paramedics when she arrived at hospital, has waited five years for the opportunity.

According to Warren, Aiden often hears how he was born on the side of the road and, since he’s getting a older and starting to understand more, she thought now would be a good time to make contact with Duval and Barbier.

The meeting was held at MD Ambulance’s Michael Dutchak Center on May 27 in Saskatoon.

Her three sons, including Aiden and Kayden, had the chance to explore the same ambulance that Aiden was born in and talk to Duval and Barbier.

“This is the type of call that you’ll never forget in your career and so this makes it like another ten notches up higher on my list because now I know these little guys,” said Duval after meeting the twins and Warren.

Warren and Duval both hope that this meeting won’t be their last, and that they will get to see each other again.

“I think it’s going to be neat, like Tom says, to meet them again in five, ten years,” said Duval.

According to MD Ambulance, highway baby deliveries are not uncommon in Saskatchewan, with paramedics helping to deliver as many as 16 newborns a year.

With a report from CTV Saskatoon