Local Cop Helps Deliver Newborn On The Way To The Hospital
Great job to Sgt. Mulham & EMTs Lapre & Bermudez for delivering a healthy baby boy Saturday morning @NYPDnews @FDNY pic.twitter.com/qKxu4KwQzf
— NYPD 61st Precinct (@NYPD61Pct) January 4, 2016
A baby boy got a hero’s welcome when he entered the world this weekend.
A sergeant from the 61st Precinct helped deliver a baby on the side of the road in Sheepshead Bay during the early morning hours on Saturday, NYPD News reports.
Sergeant Cara Mulham and Officer Artem Makaryan were called to a home on East 14th Street, near Avenue R, just after 2am to help a woman in labor, according to the FDNY. EMTs were already at the scene and the two police officers helped load the pregnant woman into an ambulance.
Sergeant Mulham, sensing that the birth was imminent, told the EMTs she was a graduate nurse and asked if they needed help, according to NYPD News. The EMTs asked Mulham to hop in the ambulance and the crew took off for Coney Island Hospital (Recently renamed NYC Health + Hospitals Coney Island).
They made it only a few blocks before they were forced to pull over to the side of the road. Mulham helped the EMTs successfully delivery the baby. The new mom and her son were taken to the hospital in good health, NYPD News reports.
The dramatic birth occurred barely 24 hours after the neighborhood welcomed the first child born in the United States in 2016 — which also took place at NYC Health + Hospitals Coney Island.