State trooper saves 8-day-old baby who couldn’t breathe in a McDonald’s parking lot
The infant had stopped breathing and was turning blue.
A woman called Massachusetts State Police from a McDonald’s parking lot on Wednesday evening to report that her 8-day-old baby boy was not breathing. The 28-year-old Cambridge mother had been driving down Soldiers Field Road in Boston when the baby’s grandmother, who had been feeding the infant in the backseat, noticed he seemed distressed, according to a police release. That’s when they pulled into the McDonald’s parking lot and called police shortly before 6 p.m.When Trooper John Arone arrived, the mother said the baby had stopped breathing and was turning blue, according to police. Arone confirmed the boy was not breathing but did not see anything blocking his airway, police said, so he loosened the baby’s swaddling and patted his back. The infant let out a “great, big belch,” releasing an air bubble, saliva, and formula, police said. He then started breathing again and began to cry — “the best sound everyone present will hear for a long time,” according to police.The baby was brought into McDonald’s for warmth before he and his mother were transported to the Boston Children’s Hospital for evaluation. “The baby boy is in good health and doing fine,” a police spokesman said Thursday.
