Have you heard about the baby born this week on Coast Highway at Dover?
Piper Cecilia Hunt was born Monday, delivered by her father on the side of the road after his best attempts to make it to Hoag Hospital were cut short by a stern 911 operator who said “PULL OVER SIR, YOU ARE ENDANGERING THE LIFE OF YOUR WIFE AND CHILD AND WE CAN’T FIND A MOVING CAR.”
The father, who finally wrote a blog because he said he was getting tired of telling the story, writes: “I tell her I’m at Dover and PCH. She says great, help is on the way. Then she says something that sent shivers down my spine ‘don’t worry, I’m going to walk you through this’….Trust me, you don’t want to hear the words ‘don’t worry, I’m going to walk you through this’ from a 911 dispatcher or an air traffic controller. It means you have to do something your not prepared or trained to do…”
The baby’s head was out, but the cord was wrapped around her neck, and the dad wasn’t sure what to do next. But a second later, paramedics arrived to help finish the job and make sure she was breathing. Later, he said, they had his car cleaned and drove it to the hospital for him.
Mom, baby and dad are all well.
Read more here.
This story just makes me want to tell the world how much I appreciate emergency crews and paramedics. Over the past year, when my dad’s health was failing, my parents made regular calls to their local EMTS for help with him. My friend Maria just announced her new job as an ambulance EMT, and I’m very proud of her. Recently, my family had dinner with some Newport Beach Fire Department firefighters and paramedics, and I was impressed and again grateful to them for the job they do. Apparently, paramedics answer so many calls that they have to sleep in a different room of the fire station so their constant comings and goings don’t bother the others.
I am also very grateful that my children were born inside the hospitals, not on the way.
