Real baby stars in Berry's Merry Christmas Parade in second dramatic appearance

Starring alongside his mother Caroline and father Alex, who played the roles of Mary and Joseph, young Harry wasn't born in a stable.

Instead he chose the footpath between the car park and the entrance to Shoalhaven Hospital to make his first appearance.

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It wasn't that there was no room for Harry, it was more of a case of him being in a hurry to enter the world.

"Harry in a hurry", mum Caroline likes to call her new son who was born on September 1 this year.

"I was a stubborn mother," Caroline said when asked how Harry's birth came about.

"My first baby (three-year-old daughter Lottie's birth) was quite quick as well and we were told the second one would be quite quick.

Lottie's birth took one hour and 20 minutes. On that occasion Caroline and Alex made it in to hospital.

"My water's broke about 7am and I thought it was convenient to go to the hospital and drop the daughter off at Day Care on the way.

"We dropped her off on the way and I was having contractions in the car but I said to my husband, let's just park the car to make it easier."

It was then that Caroline realised the morning's slight detours were a mistake.

"We parked the car and I said we're not going to make it," Caroline said.

"We started walking and I said, this baby's coming now.

"There was no one around and he couldn't use his mobile to call because he was helping me.

"I basically caught (Harry) as he was coming out."

Caroline was holding Harry's head when the midwives located them but he had no intention of waiting any longer.

"They started running but we had to basically keep him coming out."

Caroline meanwhile wasn't at all phased by her son's dramatic entry.

"I didn't panic, your body knows what to do, it's a very natural thing and you deal with the situation as it comes, you can't push them back in," she said.

With such a dramatic entry to the world it is little wonder Harry has already made a staring public appearance - not that Harry knows anything about the fuss.

"He slept the whole way," Caroline said of Harry's role in the Berry Merry Christmas parade.

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