A Boston police sergeant delivered a baby in a car
The roads were a bit crazy for Boston Police Sergeant Rene Sanchez on Friday afternoon.
While helping with a traffic stop near Centre and Mozart Streets in Jamaica Plain around 5:12 p.m., a man ran towards Sanchez and said his wife was in labor. The couple was driving to the hospital and realized they weren’t going to make it in time, Boston police said in a statement.
Sanchez, a 20-year veteran of department, rushed to the car to help deliver the baby and called for an ambulance, officials said.
“I just thought back to what they told us during our training in the Academy and kept updating EMS,” Sanchez said in a statement. “I told her, push, push, hold my hand and push!”
The baby was born in just a few minutes, and the sergeant moved quickly to unwrap the umbilical cord when he saw it was around the little girl’s neck, according to police. While he was helping the baby, he asked the new father to hold down the button on his microphone so he could continue to communicate with responding paramedics.
“It just so happened, because of this act of teamwork and uncanny timing, the baby’s first cries were transmitted over the radio for all the officers [in] the district to hear,” police said in the statement.
Paramedics arrived quickly after, and Sanchez personally escorted the newborn and her parents as they were transported to a local hospital, according to police.
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