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Police officers in Littleton, Colorado, saved the life of a tiny unborn baby who was delivered into a toilet three months prematurely. Little Nevaeh (heaven spelled backwards) was saved from drowning and revived, and the officers and paramedics who rescued her have been named the baby's godparents.
"She's going to probably be shocked that this is how she came into the world," her mother Salina Newman told reporters, according to Rocky Mountain News.
Newman, 22, was six months pregnant February 7 when she woke up in pain and went into the bathroom. The baby slipped out into the toilet, still completely enclosed in the amniotic sac. Newman thought the baby was dead, Rocky Mountain News reported.
She made a frantic call to the Littleton Police Department. "I need an ambulance. I just had a baby," Newman told the 911 operator, according to The Denver Channel. "I was only six months pregnant and I went to the restroom and I think (the baby) is in the toilet."
Officers Bob Carmody, Al Quintana, and Nick Dimitric responded to the call. "I looked in the toilet bowl and I could see ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Officers Rescue Newborn Baby from Toilet; >BY; ROE IN CRISIS AND THE...