Couple thank heroes of roadside delivery
Published: September 15, 2006
With the help of two construction workers and an EMS dispatcher, a Calgary couple delivered a baby at the side of the road.
Yesterday, Andrew and Janelle Baldwin met with emergency workers to thank them for their help in saving their baby girl’s life.
Janelle believed she had at least five hours before delivery when she and Andrew hopped into their car Aug. 12 and left for the hospital.
But within minutes she knew Kayla, their third child, would make her way into the world faster than anticipated.
Andrew pulled over to the side of the road at 194 Street and Macleod Trail S.E. and as he ran over to his wife’s side of the car, he immediately flagged down two passing construction workers.
“Janelle started pulling down her pants and I handed them my cellphone with EMS on the line,” he said yesterday.
“When I turned back, the baby was born.”
Andrew said Kayla was blue and not breathing and he quickly began blowing gently into her mouth, as one construction worker relayed the advice from EMS dispatcher Tyler Thomas.
“They told me to make sure she was covered and the construction worker handed me a jacket to cover her while I kept blowing into her mouth,” said Andrew.
Andrew said Kayla opened her eyes but quickly paled again and stopped breathing.
“I saw the ambulance coming and it was the best sight I have ever seen,” said Andrew.
The baby was still bluish when paramedics Teresa Roberts and Craig Munro arrived. They warmed Kayla up and helped her breathing, and she was in good shape when she arrived at the hospital.
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