MECHANIC FALLS — While most of New England was focused Tuesday on Juno, the blizzard of 2015, Katie and Scott Boyd had more important matters to occupy their time. In fact, the couple barely glanced out the windows of their powder-blue mobile home on the day their baby, Sawyer, was born.

On Tuesday morning, two midwives from the coast and one from the Augusta area converged on the Boyds’ Lewiston Street home after hours of navigating wind-whipped, snowy roads.

Katie Boyd had called Sarah Ackerly, a midwife and doctor of naturopathic medicine from Northern Sun Family Health Care in Topsham, at 5 a.m. to say “something was definitely happening.” At 6 a.m., Boyd called again to say: “Would you please get here now?”

By 9 a.m., all three midwives had arrived. Sawyer was born underwater in an inflatable pool in the nursery five hours and 46 minutes later, ending Katie Boyd’s 20-hour labor.

“He popped right up and immediately they put him on my chest,” Katie Boyd said. “He made eye contact with me within seconds and sort of stared into my eyes. It was love at first sight.”

Scott Boyd had caught his son as he emerged in the pool and later cut the umbilical cord.

Katie Boyd said the contractions began about the time the first few flakes of snow started falling.

“I kind of thought nothing of it,” she said. “It’s Maine and it’s winter.”

The next morning, after hours of labor, somebody uncovered a window for her. “I was kind of blown away by what was out there,” she said.

After the birth, the midwives had stayed, cleaned the nursery, did loads of laundry and tended to all of the household needs, including taking out the trash. Everything except shoveling. Scott Boyd tended to the nearly two feet of snow that had accumulated outside.

Two of the midwives drove back Tuesday night. One stayed overnight on Tuesday and served the new parents a pancake breakfast in bed the next morning.

Ackerly and Carrie Werner of Bath showed their gratitude to emergency workers and road crews by penning letters to the editors of the local newspapers through whose town roads they drove that day.

The Boyds had first considered a hospital birth and visited a Lewiston hospital a couple of times, then explored the notion of a home birth after talking to relatives who had gone that route.

Katie Boyd met with Ackerly and knew she’d found the person she wanted to guide her through the birth of her child.

Ackerly confided after the birth that she’d had concerns about her ability to reach the Boyds’ home in the blizzard after the governor had declared a state of emergency.

“She didn’t want to panic me,” before the birth, Katie Boyd said. Had the midwives been unable to get through, the Boyds would have had to get to the hospital in Lewiston.

“Thank God they got here,” Katie Boyd said.

Scott Boyd is thankful they didn’t lose power during the birth. “Not even a flicker,” he said.

Since the birth, friends and family members have told the Boyds that Sawyer’s middle name should be Storm or Juno.

Katie Boyd has clipped newspaper stories about the historic storm to glue into Sawyer’s baby book.

Undeterred, Scott Boyd said the couple plans to have a home birth again for Sawyer’s brother or sister.

“Except we’ll plan this one so it’s a summer baby,” he said.

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