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Police Forced To Deliver Demanding Baby

Mother Unable To Make It To Hospital To Give Birth

POSTED: 7:16 pm EDT July 28, 2008
UPDATED: 8:37 pm EDT July 28, 2008

Police were forced to deliver a baby Sunday night when a woman in labor couldn’t make it to the hospital in time to give birth.

Tony Navarro called 911 when his significant other, Amanda Lewnowski, went into labor.

“Hey, how's it going? My girl's having a baby, and she feels she can't make it to the car, so I'm probably going to need an ambulance," he said in the 911 call.

“We get these kinds of calls all the time, false contractions, so I didn't really think too much of it,” said Officer Luke Gallant, who helped deliver the baby. “But when I got out of the car I could hear her screaming from the house, so I knew something was up.”

As a registered EMT, he said he knew just what to do.

Gallant and his partner, Sgt. Barry Foster, delivered baby Jordan, wrapped him in a blanket, and got him, Navarro and Lewnowski to the hospital.

“My water broke, and I felt the baby's head coming out,” said Lewnowski. “At first, it didn't even faze me that these were cops. I just thought it was already the EMTs. I wasn't even paying attention. All I know is, I was in pain."

Baby Jordan will have brothers and sisters to play with, Lewnowski said, since this is her fourth child.

However, Gallant said, “This is my first baby, my first one. It doesn't happen often in the field, so this was an unusual experience.”

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