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Roadside Miracle: First Responders Deliver Baby On Garden State Parkway Roadside Miracle: First Responders Deliver Baby On Garden State Parkway
Roadside Miracle: First Responders Deliver Baby On Garden State Parkway A newborn girl named Amelia made a dramatic entrance into the world on the side of the Garden State Parkway with the help of Cape May County first responders. Upper Township paramedics and Seaville firefighters were called to the northbound side of the parkway at around 9:03 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, Seaville Fire Rescue said in a Facebook post. A mother in labor had pulled over near milepost 21, unable to reach the hospital in time. Seaville fire Deputy Chief Brian Allegretto, a medical intensive care unit paramedic, arrived first at 9:09 p.m. alongside state troopers. An ambula…
Matt Gaudreau Was Expecting Baby With Wife, Madeline, Campaign Says Matt Gaudreau Was Expecting Baby With Wife, Madeline, Campaign Says
Matt Gaudreau Was Expecting Baby With Wife, Madeline, Campaign Says The Gaudreau family had much to look forward to. Katie Gaudreau was set to marry Devin Joyce on Friday, Aug. 30. Johnny Gaudreau and his wife, Meredith, were weeks away from celebrating their daughter's second birthday. Matt Gaudreau and his wife, Madeline, were expecting a baby, according to a GoFundMe page launched for Madeline's future. ALSO SEE: Pregnant Gaudreau Widow Has Special Message For Sister-In-Law But the Gaudreau family's happy future was ripped away from them on Thursday, Aug. 29, when brothers Matt and Johnny were struck and killed by a DUI driver …
Rush-Hour Baby Born At Lincoln Tunnel Entrance With Help From Port Authority Police Rush-Hour Baby Born At Lincoln Tunnel Entrance With Help From Port Authority Police
Rush-Hour Baby Born At Lincoln Tunnel Entrance With Help From Port Authority Police A young Port Authority police officer had never delivered a baby before -- but there's a first time for everything. Responding to an emergency call at the Lincoln Tunnel toll plaza shortly before 9 a.m. Monday, July 17, PAPD Officer Timothy Jozefczyk was met by a panicked driver who said his partner was in labor and bleeding, authority Spokeswoman Lenis Valens said. Jozefczyk talked Maria Marin through it, telling her to keep pushing, Valens said, and within three minutes a healthy boy had been born. Kylian Aaron Guallpa Castano weighed in at six pounds, nine ounces for those at home who a…
Tesla Baby: Mom Delivers Daughter While Dad Keeps Electric Car On Autopilot Tesla Baby: Mom Delivers Daughter While Dad Keeps Electric Car On Autopilot
Tesla Baby: Mom Delivers Daughter While Dad Keeps Electric Car On Autopilot Maeve Lily was almost named Maeve Tess. Can you guess why?  She was born in the front of her Pennsylvania parents' Tesla, her dad's left hand resting lightly on the wheel with the car in autopilot, and his right being squeezed by her mom's as she welcomed her into the world. Yiran and Keating Sherry thought they'd be able to make it to the hospital before their baby girl was born the morning of Sept. 9, TODAY reports. Spoiler alert: They didn't. Instead, the "Tesla Baby," as nurses as Paioli Hospital nicknamed her, was delivered on the way there, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports…
Newborn Named After 911 Dispatcher Who Coached Mom Through Labor On Side Of Highway Newborn Named After 911 Dispatcher Who Coached Mom Through Labor On Side Of Highway
Newborn Named After 911 Dispatcher Who Coached Mom Through Labor On Side Of Highway Elizabeth Elyce Jalloh has a name with a story to tell. "Elizabeth" is an homage to her mom Charlotte Fatoma's grandmother, whom she says is beautiful, kind and caring.  The baby's middle name is after the 911 dispatcher, Elyce Rivera, who coached Fatoma through the entire delivery over the phone on the side of Pennsylvania's Interstate 476 in late October.  Fatoma and her baby met Rivera for the first time early this week on the "Today Show." There, Fatoma asked Rivera -- whom she describes as being "patient, kind and angelic -- to be her new daughter's godmother. "There w…
It's A Girl! NJ State Troopers Help Deliver Baby It's A Girl! NJ State Troopers Help Deliver Baby
It's A Girl! NJ State Troopers Help Deliver Baby Three troopers with the New Jersey State Police helped a woman deliver a baby at her home in South Jersey, authorities said. At 1:56 p.m. on Sunday, Troopers Nicholas Pellegrino, Vincent Caporrino, and Christopher Scarlett, all of Troop "A" Buena Vista Station, responded to a medical assist at a home in Atlantic County where a woman was in active labor, according to a State Police spokeswoman. When the troopers arrived, they found the expecting mother from Buena Vista, who told them "she was going to give birth at any minute," Trooper Brandi Slota said. Trooper Pellegrino reportedly helped…
North Jersey Mom Dies Shortly After Welcoming 1st Child With Husband: Obit North Jersey Mom Dies Shortly After Welcoming 1st Child With Husband: Obit
North Jersey Mom Dies Shortly After Welcoming 1st Child With Husband: Obit A North Jersey mom and former Philadelphia resident died shortly after welcoming her first child with her husband. She was 36. Jennifer Handley Chiarello, of Mountainside, died on Oct. 19, just one week after giving birth to her daughter, Giovanna Alma Chiarello, according to her obituary. Born in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada, she graduated from high school in 2003, earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Trent University, and then went on to earn an MBA from Ryerson University, her obit says. Handley-Chiarello was remembered on her obit as someone who always pushed her…
OH BABY! NJ Officers Help First Time Mom Deliver Baby Girl At Home OH BABY! NJ Officers Help First Time Mom Deliver Baby Girl At Home
OH Baby! NJ Officers Help First Time Mom Deliver Baby Girl At Home Two New Jersey police officers became makeshift midwives when they were called to a Burlington County home to assist a first-time mother who was in labor.  Evesham Township officers Matthew Addezio and Anthony Padulese on July 24 took matters into their own hands when they quickly recognized there was no time to wait for EMS, a Facebook post reads. Officer Addezio delivered a healthy baby girl within minutes of arriving on the scene, thanks to his United States Air Force combat medic skills and the assistance of Officer Padulese. Evesham pdEvesham Township Police Department Officers Ad…
NY Opera Singer Delivers Her Own Baby In Car On Busy NJ Highway NY Opera Singer Delivers Her Own Baby In Car On Busy NJ Highway
NY Opera Singer Delivers Her Own Baby In Car On Busy NJ Highway Emily Hardman had a general idea of how she wanted the birth of her second baby to go: Vaginally and unmedicated. The professional opera singer, who travels around the country singing as a contralto, got just that early last Saturday morning. The only thing was, though, she wasn't in a hospital with midwifery care and her doula. She was in the backseat of her family's Honda Accord — her husband Travis Hardman, CEO of Cantata Media, Daily Voice’s owner, behind the wheel — on Route 78 in New Jersey, guided by nothing but a meditation app and cues from her own body. On May 15 at 5:47 a.m., b…
VIDEO: Atlantic City Police Help Deliver Baby Girl VIDEO: Atlantic City Police Help Deliver Baby Girl
Video: Atlantic City Police Help Deliver Baby Girl Whoa, baby! That's all one can say after this story. Spoiler alert: You can view the end result via the video linked above. On Saturday, Atlantic City Police Officers Auttika Taing and Justin Peyton were leaving AtlantiCare Regional Medical Center, City Division, when a vehicle pulled behind them.  A frantic driver told the patrol officers that her friend needed immediate medical attention. The officers went to the passenger side and spoke to a woman that had just given birth and the baby was in her pants, according to police. The officers could clearly see movement from insid…
North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong
North Jersey Mom Left Brain Damaged After C-Section, Family Piecing Together What Went Wrong Estefania Mesa was cheerful and excited to deliver her first baby as she was wheeled in for an emergency C-section at Hoboken University Medical Center on July 20. But that joyful moment never came for 28-year-old Mesa, who went into cardiac arrest on the operating table, causing a severe lack of oxygen to her brain for nearly nine minutes, family and friends told Daily Voice. The North Bergen mom has been in a vegetative state ever since, and her loved ones are struggling to understand where things went wrong. Despite a court order to release medical records from Mesa's procedure, Hoboke…
OH BOY? Middletown Police Help Deliver Rush-Hour Baby OH BOY? Middletown Police Help Deliver Rush-Hour Baby
OH BOY? Middletown Police Help Deliver Rush-Hour Baby Middletown police helped deliver a rush-hour baby along Route 35 on Friday morning, authorities said. The baby was born about 8 a.m. in a car parked near Field Avenue, Middletown police said. "The baby is out. Breathing and crying," an initial report said. Police did not say whether the "special delivery" brought a girl or boy into Monmouth County No other details about the mother or baby were released.  CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES
Sussex County Dad Delivers Baby On Side Of Route 519 Sussex County Dad Delivers Baby On Side Of Route 519
Sussex County Dad Delivers Baby On Side Of Route 519 A Sussex County dad is reflecting on the desperate and adrenaline-filled moment he helped deliver his own child on the side of Route 519. Coronavirus precautions changed the birth plan for Branchville's Gia Leo, 37, who birthed her first child with husband Erion Adams via Cesarean section, NJHerald reports. Though Leo wanted a natural delivery, Adams, 44, got a call just two days prior to his wife's March 24 delivery date saying the couple would have to schedule a C-section due to the possibility of understaffing. But Asher Jackson Adams had a plan of his own.  Leo’s water broke…