Dec 24, 2008 8:35 am US/Eastern
Officers Help Deliver Baby In Brooklyn Cab
BROOKLYN (CBS) ―
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Little Elina Zhao was born in a livery cab in Brooklyn.
CBS
A Christmas gift has come early to a mom whose newborn was delivered in the back seat of a taxi cab with the help of four of New York's Finest.
It all started Tuesday when a cab driver speeding the expectant mom to Brooklyn Hospital flagged down two patrol officers.
The officers -- Kerryann Douglass and Joved Serrano -- helped catch the baby, who was born not breathing. Officer Douglas, a mother of three, cleared the baby's airway.
Two more officers came to their aid. EMT veteran Officer Hector Lugo snipped the baby girl's umbilical cord.
"She had sweatpants on, and all of a sudden we saw the baby's head coming through the sweatpants. I was like: 'Oh my word.' So I pulled off her pants and out came baby," Officer Kerryann Douglass said.
The proud mom and her husband immigrated from China ten years ago and have a 15-month-old son.
Mother and child are resting comfortably at Maimonides Hospital.
(© 2009 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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