Tweens help their mom deliver baby brother
Tweens help their mom deliver baby brother
When their mom went into labor with no one else around, a 9-year-old California boy and his 11-year-old sister quickly responded like pros and helped care for their newborn brother.
"My mom started screaming and then she started bleeding all over her body and then the baby came so I called 9-1-1 for an ambulance," Jabari Sanders said, "Then my sister told my mom to lie down."
HIs sister Faith described her conversation with the 911 dispatcher.
"The operator started talking to me and telling me to take a piece of yarn or string and tie it around the umbilical cord and I did," she said. "Shortly after that the paramedics knocked on the door."
The 36-year-old Northern California woman unexpectedly went into labor at her home in Fremont and was forced to turn to her kids after giving birth while standing in her bathroom.
Geoffrey Sanders, 35, said Thursday he had left for work around 1:30 a.m. and was not around when the baby came on March 9. He said Faith and Jabari are "much brighter than their age."
"I'm a proud father," he said. "It's kind of a pat on the back that we are doing something right."
In a previous interview, Alana Sanders, said her kids stayed composed throughout the ordeal.
"They didn't freak out. They didn't fight with each other," she told the Oakland Tribune.
A 911 recording released Wednesday attests to the children's poise, as they relayed messages between their mother and a dispatcher.
After the baby was born, the dispatcher can be heard telling Faith to wipe the baby with a clean towel and tie, not cut, the umbilical cord with a string or shoelace about six inches from the baby's body.
"You did a great job," the dispatcher says, as paramedics arrive.
Alana Sanders and the newborn, Joseph, were taken to Saint Rose Hospital in Hayward. The boy, who weighed 9 pounds and 4 ounces, was healthy, Geoffrey Sanders said.
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- Posted on March 19, 2010
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That is great that the kids were there to help. They were very brave to do that because if that was me I would probably have gotten siclk. The lord was watching over the woman and lead the kids to help. Also to keep them strong. Glad the baby came and was healthy.
I can't believe that they did that without getting freaked out. I would have. I'm so happy that the baby was heatlhy. It's good to stay calm in emergencies.
Thats really cool I would have no known what to do but Im glad the baby got delivered safly even though its not the safest way out of kids doing it and a doctor.
This is so gross! I do not think I could help my mom deliver a baby if she was having one. I would call 911 real quick and scream.
I think that this prove that these kids are very brave. I also think that both parents are proud of them. And the baby coming without any side effects is a good thing.The kids would make a good doctor one day.
I think its so cool that these kids could have courage to help there mom when she was in labor. I never heard of tweens helping a family member deliver a baby. There mom had to have courage because she needed to trust her children.
I think that it is so cool that these two kids had the courage to help their mom deliver their baby brother and they had know experience at all, they are so brave I don't even think that I could be able to do that and the fact that the both of them are younger then me it makes me feel like a wimp just reading this story.
this is a very surprising story it says a it about the kids it shows that they first of all love their mother their mother very much and also that they are very smart and courageous i don't think that at their age i would be able to do what they did or stay as calm as they were. This article was written to inform and the literary devices used were metaphor by saying it was a pat on the back and denotation.
That was very brave of them to help their mom when she was giving birth. If that was me i would not be able to help my mom. Also I would not know what to do and probably freak out if that was me. I've got to say that the kids should become doctors when they grow up. If i were to rate this post i would give it 5 out of 5 stars.
WOW!!! That is amazing! I know that most kids would want to be doctors and would face having to be the person to deliver the baby but that would be really frustrating even for an 11year old and an 9 year old. If that were me that would have been something that I would have never forgotten. :)