Premature newborn rescued from toilet
Published: February 12, 2006
Colorado emergency workers feel like they took part in a miracle, saving a baby born on a toilet so premature her mother thought she was having a miscarriage.
Salina Newman and her partner, Leonard Howard, have named their new daughter Nevaeh — heaven spelled backward. She weighed only 1 pound 5 ounces at birth, the Denver Post reported.
‘It makes me feel great,’ Littleton police officer Bob Carmody said. ‘You don`t get to save a life every day.’
Newman called 911 when she went into labor three months before her delivery date. When police officers arrived, Howard told them the baby was in the toilet and Newman said she thought she had just had a miscarriage.
But Carmody saw movement and picked up the baby, still in its amniotic sac. He wrapped Nevaeh in a blanket and ran downstairs with her, handing her to firefighters as they arrived.
The baby is expected to stay at the hospital in Littleton until she is up to 6 pounds.
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