NYPD Officers Deliver Baby In Bedford-Stuyvesant Apartment
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- Two NYPD officers rushed to a Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn apartment this week and delivered a baby, police said.
Around 4:05 p.m. Tuesday, officers Kristin Coscia and Joseph Sferrazza, both four-year veterans assigned to patrol in the 81st Precinct, responded to a building on Monroe Street after a report of a woman in labor, police said.
Once the officers arrived, they were directed into the bedroom of an apartment where they found the 27-year-old woman lying on her bed in the process of giving birth, police said.
The child's father, who remained on the phone with the 911 dispatchers after the officers came, handed the phone to Officer Coscia, police said. The officer placed the phone on speaker, and the 911 operator directed the soon-to-be-mother as she experienced contractions, police said.
With the next push, the baby boy was delivered at 4:20 p.m. and was received by Officer Sferrazza, who wrapped him in a towel, police said.
The healthy baby boy, named Izaine, and the mother were taken to Woodhull Medical Center, police said.