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Wood-Ridge Officers Clear Way For Newborn's Arrival Wood-Ridge Officers Clear Way For Newborn's Arrival
Wood-Ridge Officers Clear Way For Newborn's Arrival The sound of a newborn baby’s cry was music to the ears of two Wood-Ridge police officers who arrived moments after he did. Directed by new dad Michael Jackson to a second-floor bathroom where his wife had just given birth shortly before 3 a.m., Officers Roberto Cangialosi and Michael Mueller detected a heartbeat. Aleksandra "Sasha" Jackson had told them she “woke up with some pain in her back and abdomen” and “went into the bathroom thinking she was possibly suffering from minor intestinal pains,” Cangialosi said. Then the baby’s head crowned. Cangialosi said he and Mueller “began cleani…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Police Officers Help Sussex County Mom Deliver Baby At Home Police Officers Help Sussex County Mom Deliver Baby At Home
Police Officers Help Sussex County Mom Deliver Baby At Home A new mom from Sparta is sharing the intense experience of delivering her baby in her own home -- but not without the help of three police officers. Lindsey Schlott and her husband, Brad Scheller, were concerned that COVID-19 precautions would prevent them from being together during the birth of their child. “I was pretty panicked about the idea of my husband not being there," Schlott told Daily Voice. "When I saw that there was a possibility that my husband wasn’t gonna be there, I thought, ‘I don’t want to do this by myself.’” On the evening of March 24, the couple talked with their dou…

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by Valerie Musson
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Authorities ID Jersey City Mom Who Died Hours After Baby Authorities ID Jersey City Mom Who Died Hours After Baby
Authorities ID Jersey City Mom Who Died Hours After Baby Both a newborn baby girl and her mom died after a home delivery in Jersey City over the weekend, authorities said. Authorities found the infant unresponsive when they responded to 33 Suburbia Ct. Saturday around 6 a.m. on report of a female needing medical assistance, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office said. The baby's mom, Sandra Provost, 41, was transported to Jersey City Medical Center for treatment of a medical condition, the prosecutor's office said. Authorities did not say whether or not the woman's condition was related to the birth of her new daughter. The infant was pronounced…

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by Cecilia Levine