The first place Izaak Ellison saw after birth was the inside of his parents’ 2009 Jetta TDI. He just couldn’t wait until Stephanie and Travis Ellison made it to the hospital to come into the world.

“He was delivered just past Sidney Street going 100 miles per hour,” said his father, Travis.

“It was the craziest experience of my life,” said his mother, Stephanie.

Izaak was born Saturday, Nov. 12 at 9:30 a.m. He wasn’t due until Dec. 2.

The Tuesday before, doctors had given Stephanie a shot to stop her labor. The doctor told Stephanie that the goal was to have the baby after Thanksgiving.

But Izaak had other plans.

The morning of Nov. 12, Stephanie said she awakened at 7 o’clock feeling unwell and went to take a shower to help her feel better. When a shower didn’t help, she woke Travis so he could take her to the hospital. He left to get coffee and Stephanie got back in the shower.

“I felt really uncomfortable and didn’t quite know what was going on,” Stephanie said.

A friend who was caring for their 6-and-one-half-year-old son, Kaiden, came by the home just before Stephanie’s water broke. She found herself unable to walk so the friend carried her to the car. She didn’t remember much of the drive.

“I was in the zone,” Stephanie said.

Travis sped from their home on Oak Harbor Street south toward Whidbey General Hospital in Coupeville, flashing the lights at other cars and trying to get to the hospital as quickly as he could.

Near Rolling Hills, Travis said he saw “a lump” in Stephanie’s sweatpants. They wrapped the newborn in Travis’ sweatshirt.

When they got to the hospital, Travis hurried inside and told the people at the desk that his wife had just delivered their son in the car. They were shocked, Travis said.

When hospital staff tried to take the baby from Stephanie, she said they couldn’t because he was still attached, Travis said.

Their doctor showed up 10 minutes later and Travis cut the umbilical cord.

Izaak was born slightly jaundiced and remained in an incubator for two and one-half days but was pronounced healthy. He weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces and measured 18 inches at birth.

Izaak’s name means “laughing one” in Hebrew.

“He seems to fit his name because in the car, he was quiet after he was born,” Travis said, adding that they kept calling him Izaak and he responded well.

“We wanted a unique name for him so that’s why it’s spelled differently,” Stephanie said.

When Kaiden visited the hospital, he asked to hold his new brother.

“It was the cutest thing. He started singing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,’” Travis said. Before Kaiden arrived, Izaak had been fidgety but when Kaiden took him, “he quit crying, opened his eyes and started smiling,” Travis said.

Now, “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” calms Izaak and it’s Kaiden’s favorite song to sing to him, Travis said.

“It was a completely life-changing experience to have my wife deliver the baby by herself in the front seat of the car,” Travis said.

When people hear their story, “Maybe it’ll make sense to people why there was a crazy car driving down the road,” Stephanie said with a laugh.