Baldwin City ? Julie Pringle wasn’t due to have her baby until Sunday. But then again, it was her third child, and anything can happen.

The baby came early, around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, and Pringle had her baby girl, Piper, in the bathroom of her home at 616 Flame Way.

“Yeah, she was fast,” Julie Pringle said about her daughter’s early arrival.

As soon as Pringle went into labor, father Mark Pringle called 911.

Baldwin City Police Cpl. Kristen Dymacek arrived three minutes later, and Piper already had been born.

It wasn’t a perfect delivery; bathroom deliveries rarely are.

“She had the (umbilical) cord around her neck,” the mother said.

Dymacek quickly went into action, and soon the baby was breathing.

“She’s fine. She’s a big girl,” Pringle said.

Piper weighs 8 pounds, 6 ounces and is 18.5 inches long. Her brother Vance was 8 pounds, 3 ounces, and older sister Peyton was 7 pounds, 11 ounces. The other two births were “normal” for Pringle.

The birth caused quite a commotion.

“I think probably all the neighbors were freaked out,” Pringle said. “Two ambulances and a police car at your house in Baldwin City doesn’t look right.”

One of those ambulances took the mother and baby to Overland Park Regional Hospital. Pringle said she thought they’d come home today.

Police Chief Mike McKenna said the department is proud of Dymacek.

“Everything worked out,” McKenna said. “We’re happy for the baby and the family. When the officer called me to tell me about it, I asked her if it was a boy or a girl. She said, ‘I don’t know. I was too busy to look.'”