Baby on board: Family unexpectedly welcomes baby on a Marine Atlantic ferry [Video]

The newest resident of Newfoundland’s Codroy Valley just couldn’t wait to make her first appearance, and was born aboard the Marine Atlantic ferry crossing between Port aux Basques, N.L. and North Sydney, N.S., last Friday.

Lindsey Gale and Mason Devoe said the arrival of their daughter, Miley Genevieve, was an unexpected surprise at 33 weeks.

Gale told CBC Radio’s Newfoundland Morning she felt something might have been off throughout the day, and quickly realized what was happening.

“Earlier in the evening I had thought I was having some Braxton Hicks contractions as they were pretty far apart and pretty sporadic,” Gale said. “And as the night went on, they got more and more regular.”

Heading toward North Sydney and without a nurse versed in child birth, the couple …