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Baby on board | New mom delivers baby in her car along the highway with an officer assist
Constable Jenna Ziviani helped deliver the baby in the car as paramedics arrived shortly after, and police said mother and daughter are recovering at home.
- Officers helped deliver a baby girl in the driveway of the Browns Plains Police Station in Queensland just after midnight on Tuesday. The birth occurred seven minutes after police arrived.
- The mother and her partner were driving to Logan Hospital when she entered late stages of labour with contractions two minutes apart. Realizing they would not arrive in time, they pulled into the police station driveway.
- Constable Jenna Ziviani helped deliver the baby under guidance from a Queensland Ambulance Service Emergency Medical Dispatcher on the phone. The dispatcher guided Ziviani through the process from crowning to supporting the baby's shoulders.
- Paramedics arrived shortly after and transported the family to Logan for further care. Police say both the mother and newborn are now happy and healthy, recovering at home.
- Senior Sergeant Aleisha Young, arriving shortly after the birth, called it a "celebration" in her 27-year career. She noted it was the first time in her service she had assisted with a birth on shift.
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Browns Plains Police deliver baby in station driveway
A baby girl has been welcomed into the world in the driveway of Browns Plains Police Station in Logan after her father made a pitstop at the station, fearing his partner would not make it to hospital in time to give birth. Just after midnight on Tuesday, on-duty officers say they were returning to the station when they were flagged down by a man in a red hatchback parked in the station’s driveway. Officers approached the vehicle where they disco…
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- 45% of the sources lean Left, 44% of the sources are Center
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