Dad delivers son on kitchen floor on April Fools' Day April 2, 2013 - 9:28AM Maurice Burr and Gabrielle Wallace with their new son Ronald who was delivered by Maurice on the kitchen floor on Monday morning. Photo: Craig Warhurst, Gympie Times First-time dad Maurice Burr initial thought was "you can't be serious" when his wife went into labour on April Fools' Day. The gravity of the situation was driven home on Monday morning when he delivered baby Ronald on the kitchen floor of their Gympie home north of Brisbane. Mother-of-four Gabrielle Wallace patiently waited three hours after her water broke while contractions gradually increased before calling an ambulance, but the labour unexpectedly sped up so the hard work was done by the time paramedics arrived. "I was a bit freaked out, but 000 talked me through it," Maurice said. The baby boy's arrival at 3.40am on April 1 birth meant Gabrielle and her mother's planned April Fools' Day prank - to tip a cup of water on the floor and trick Maurice by telling him his wife's water had broken - was certainly called off. Read more at the Gympie Times.