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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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 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. :)
That is so cool, I think I would freak out if I had to deliver my baby brother. They were calm and relaxed, but I would have been screaming and calling 9-1-1. Now they are great children to help their mother deliver a BABY!!!
Wow that is amazing! I have heard superstitions like that, but I never thought that could happen. I am so proud of the two kids that helped their mom, I would have freaked out and screamed Ew! I hope that the kids get recognized for their brave work. Even though it would be gross, I would feel honored to deliver a sibling. Way to go Faith and Jabri!!!!!
That is a beautiful thing that those kids did. I would have never been able to do that. They are the bravest kids in the whole world!!!!!!!!!!!!
The brave children delivered the baby and they were very calm. The mother told them to call 911 and the little girl called the parametics. The parametics told the little girl to find a string and she found the string and she tied the string to the cord and it came undone. The mom went to the hospital and the baby weighed 9 pounds and 4 ounces and the family is doing great
Aww that's so sweet and i hope is going to be a good little boy and yall can make a lot of money wen yall grow up telling this story.