A mother last night thanked Bermuda Regiment soldiers for coming to the aide of her paralysed son and her daughter who gave birth during Hurricane Igor.

Regiment soldiers battled heavy wind and rain to transport Wolde Bartley, a man on life-support, and his pregnant sister Walette Maldanardo to hospital during the storm late on Sunday night.

Lauren Wilson was taking care of both her children when their Paget home lost power along with a generator that kicks in when electricity goes out.

She didn't want to go to the King Edward VII Memorial Hospital but in hindsight, is glad she did.

Mr. Bartley, 29, was left badly brain damaged after a car accident in 2004. He relies on oxygen tanks to stay alive.

Mrs. Maldanardo had a baby girl named Maiya at lunchtime on Monday.

Mrs. Wilson was overcome with emotion last night detailing the events.

"What happened was, I have an emergency generator that kicks in when my electricity goes out and it broke down", she said.

"My son was in the Regiment. They called me. There's a lady at the Regiment, Carol Everson who called to see how we were doing.

"I said the generator broke down. It runs on propane. She said she didn't think we should stay there. We had three containers of gas for the backup generator.

"I called Besco and they tried to fix it. I had the regular generator for backup."

She continued: "I told the Regiment I would call them back in half an hour but then they were knocking on my door.

"My son depends on oxygen. They told us we couldn't stay. It was better for us to leave. I did call the 911 operator because I couldn't get through to the hospital.

"They told me as long as I had electricity I could stay home and if I didn't, by all means bring him. I was upset to leave my home but the next day I felt better that I did.

"That's because my plan A broke down and because I was already using plan B, I didn't have a plan C."

Mrs. Wilson said her daughter didn't want to leave the house as she was convinced the baby wasn't coming because it hadn't "dropped".

"I also had my daughter home and she was pregnant. She didn't want to leave and she thought the baby wasn't going to come.

"I said Walette get in this ambulance right now. She said I'm not going to go into labour. I said get into this ambulance.

"She went into labour at 5 a.m. and the baby was born at noon."

Mrs. Wilson thanked everyone who came to her family's rescue late Sunday night.

"I want to thank the Regiment for their help especially Carol Everson and Fred Pereech and also all of the hospital staff and EMTs and most of all I would like to thank Besco for trying to fix my generator.

"This man drove out in the hurricane to try to fix it. He left his house in North Shore to come and get that generator working.

"My neighbours were out helping, holding up umbrellas. I would also like to thank them for helping. The Regiment brought an ambulance and a truck load of boys to help us. I would like to thank all of the boys."