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Paramedic helps deliver his own grandchild

30-year EMS veteran jumped into the back of the ambulance, ‘gloved up’ and caught granddaughter

By Kimberly Nelson
ABC-4 TV News

OREM, Utah — Monday morning, baby Jane and her parents Kara and Keven Cottle headed home from the hospital. Jane was born Saturday morning in the back of an ambulance; her grandfather helped bring her into the world.

Kara Cottle explains, “I thought I’d make it to the hospital cause not making it to the hospital only happens to people on TV.”

When contractions started coming on quick plans changed. “I literally went from one minute thinking we should call my parents to baby sit the two-year-old when we go to the hospital to the next minute I thought we should just grab a neighbor, and the next minute I thought we can have the paramedics baby sit her. I don’t care I need an ambulance,” said Cottl.

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