A pregnant woman waiting for an ambulance ended up giving birth inside her Brooklyn apartment with the help of the baby's father, two NYPD officers and a 911 dispatcher instructing them over speakerphone.
Officers Kristin Coscia and Joseph Sferrazza helped deliver the baby boy Tuesday evening after they responded to a call of a woman in labor at an apartment in the 81st Precinct, which covers Bedford-Stuyvesant.
When they arrived at the apartment, the officers found a 27-year-old pregnant woman lying on her bed giving birth.
"We knew the baby was coming and the ambulance wasn't there yet, so we had to take action," Sferrazza said.
The baby's father handed the phone to Coscia, who put the phone on speaker so a 911 operator could provide further directions to the mother, who was beginning to have another contraction.
"Between the 911 operator yelling and us trying to communicate to each other, it was a little chaotic in the room at that point," Coscia said. "Everyone was excited that she was having a baby."
With the mother's next push the boy was born at 4:20 p.m. in the arms of Sferrazza, who wrapped the baby in a towel.
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"They prepare you for it in the academy but it's a lot different when you're going through it in person," Sferrazza said.
EMS arrived a short time later and took baby Izaine and his mother and father to Woodhull Medical Center.
The two officers said it was just part of the job and that they'd do it again.
"It's a different kind of exciting," Sferrazza said.
