Three state troopers help deliver baby girl
State police were impressed with the quick thinking of an expecting couple who pulled into their barracks parking lot Tuesday night amid bumper-to-bumper traffic and delivered a baby in the passenger’s seat of their SUV.
“Ideally we wanted to, if we could have, taken her to the hospital, but we couldn’t,” trooper Stephen Kavol told cameras last night beside two of his partners in the area where the baby girl was born hours earlier. “We liked to get her in the back to be able to lay down, but we couldn’t. It was so close, so the passenger’s seat is where it took place.
“She did most of the work, (we) just assisted her,” Kavol said.
The Malden couple was eventually transported from the State Police Boston Barracks in Leverett Circle to Massachusetts General Hospital. Police said she gave them a big thumbs up as they wheeled her into the ambulance.
“I was hoping that Boston EMS would get there a little quicker,” joked trooper Robert Foley, who also helped deliver the baby.
Police said they believed that the Malden couple had checked out of the hospital as of last night. According to Kavol, it wasn’t their first child.
“It was just reminding her to do what she learned in her classes,” Kavol said. “I said, ‘Just whatever you’ve done before and learned you do and I’ll be right here to help you.’”
Kavol said he was returning to the barracks from patrol in Jamaica Plain when he learned the woman was giving birth. Foley and trooper Anthony Wosny grabbed medical blankets and made sure the area was sanitary for the delivery. The expecting father was on the phone with 911 the whole time.
When the baby was born, “the dad had the cellphone up to his ear still,” Wosny said. “I had to go up to him, (say) ‘Congratulations, you have a daughter.’ ”
The troopers said dad was “in shock” from the entire ordeal but “was thankful.”
“The husband did an excellent job with the phone call and being able to navigate his way to the barracks parking lot,” Kavol said.