Baby Delivery
This year’s strangest tales involved a medic who won a lottery, providers treating family members, a heroic dispatcher, unfriendly animals and unique car crashes
A volunteer firefighter/paramedic was in the right place at the right time for an expectant mother and her visiting family
American Ambulance Paramedic Mindy Fisher shares tips for these high-stress cases and a delivery story from the field
Dispatcher Alexandra Norris said the call was the most memorable moment of her dispatching career so far
This week, officials of a small New Jersey city located on a barrier island honored first responders who helped in the historic delivery
The baby’s parents thanked Honolulu 911 Dispatcher and Paramedic Emily Zuckernick for talking them through the birth
Brian Garland, who was 18 at the time, was captured in a Polaroid picture after helping deliver a healthy baby girl
Firefighters had to perform CPR and “keep ventilating” the baby to help him survive, paramedic Melanie Howe said
“It’s not everyday you get to help deliver a new born baby at McDonald’s”
Phoebe Block visited the crew and the ambulance that paramedics delivered her in nearly six years ago
Rapid Rural Response Paramedics helped Katie Daley deliver her fifth baby in the back of an ambulance
A mom experiencing a double breech pregnancy at home was saved when first responders came to her aid 15 years ago
The woman was transported by ambulance from Forest City, with trucks and snow plows driving ahead to clear a path
Two Cedar Rapids Fire Department first responders shoveled snow outside a house as the rest of the crew helped deliver a baby inside
Dispatcher Ryan Bancroft instructed the father how to carefully unwrap the umbilical cord, which was around the baby’s neck, and told him how to administer CPR
Paramedic Johnathon Bobbitt-Miller said Yunyi Chen, who just completed EMT training, was unusually calm while giving birth in her living room
Anastasia and Daniel Skinner named their baby after Mickey Huber, who responded to Anastasia’s call when she went into labor while trying to rescue her mom’s pets
When baby Leo was discharged from the NICU after a four-month stay, mother Yazmeen Tuskan stopped by the fire station to say “thank you”
This is the third time Stacey Scheiner, a former volunteer EMT and certified nursing assistant, has helped parents through a successful home birth
Heather Roebuck said goodbye to her newborn daughter as she was evacuated by ambulance after a C-section, only to have the ambulance catch fire
Paramedics performed an emergency caesarean section to save Sana Muhammad’s baby after she was attacked with a crossbow in her kitchen
Firefighters first helped a man and his dog escape a house fire, and then went across the street to help deliver a baby girl
San Francisco Fire Department firefighter-paramedic Chris Posey met Marcial Pacek, who is now an EMT, 29 years after delivering him on the Bay Bridge
Ashley Goette, who was 39 weeks pregnant, administered CPR on her husband Andrew after he went into cardiac arrest, and gave birth after he awoke from a coma
The emergency responders had to contend with baby Shay’s umbilical cord wrapped around his neck, and after he was born he was whisked away to the hospital
Firefighters knew one of the shooting victims was eight months pregnant and went inside before police arrived “because they knew they could make a difference”
NYPD Officer Yan Kit Poon and his younger brother, FDNY EMT Yan Hao Poon, responded to the same call about a woman about to give birth in a hotel room
Four paramedics and eight EMTs assisted in the birth of two newborns over the course of 12 hours
As firefighters battled a blaze, they heard yelling next door: It was the mother of a 21-year-old woman, saying her daughter was about to give birth
New parents Bo and Yishu Wang brought baby Alyssa to meet paramedics Sean Byron and Cristine Janiak and Massachusetts State Trooper Karl Johnson
Chris Stafford was passing by a parking lot when he noticed Heather Wilson and her boyfriend needed help
Glendale Fire Department paramedics responded to a call about a mother in labor and found that the umbilical cord was wrapped around the neck of the baby
Britt Miller, who had never helped anyone deliver a baby over the phone, met Kim Schroeder, who delivered her daughter-in-law’s baby with Miller’s help