A DAD who had been delivered at home by his own father 27 years ago has carried on the family tradition by delivering his own almost 10lb baby girl at home after his partner unexpectedly went into labour.

Karl Bailey, 27, almost went into a panic when girlfriend Robyn Lilliot, 24, began to have contractions at their home in Wilkes Avenue, Leasowe, on Sunday.

Robyn was seven days overdue when she started to feel pain.

She jumped into the bath before going to the hospital and then asked Karl to telephone his mum to help look after their other two children, Josh, four, and Hope, two.

“But then everything happened so quickly when the head started to show,” said Karl.

“My nerves were all over the place.

“But I just had to get on with it - I didn’t have a choice!”

It took less than half-an-hour for baby Kasey - who was a bouncing 9lb 8oz - to be born at the top of the stairs, while grandmother Carole Bennett stayed down-stairs with her other two grandchildren waiting for the paramedics to come.

“I was elated,” said Karl. “But I was on the verge of crying, too.”

Eerily, the same thing happened to Carole on November 7, 1982, when her husband ended up delivering Karl.

Carole, 51, had felt no contractions, woke up in the morning, went to the toilet and realised the baby’s head had emerged.

“I ran to the bedroom and threw myself on the bed shouting for Karl’s dad to come, and within minutes Karl had arrived,” said Carole.

“The spooky thing is, Karl has just delivered his own third child and he was my third child.

“The chances of history repeating itself in this way must be a million to one!”