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CNN Saturday Morning News
Nine-Year-Old Helps Deliver Baby
Aired February 16, 2002 - 07:39 ET
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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: In Los Angeles, there is a nine-year- old boy who has some presence of mind, you might say.
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN ANCHOR: Boy, I'll say. His pregnant mom was ready to deliver much earlier than expected, and she needed some help.
O'BRIEN: Well, he came through. Reporter Sandra Mitchell gives us the details and baby. This is quite a story.
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SANDRA MITCHELL, CNN AFFILIATE KCAL REPORTER (voice-over): Nine- year-old Christian Alarcon is a whiz at video games. But tonight, he has got a new hobby, his little sister, Janice (ph).
He helped deliver her just yesterday. In the middle of the night, his mom collapsed in the hallway of their Hesperia home. The baby was ready to arrive two weeks early.
JENNIFER AJMAL, MOTHER: I felt her head crowning, and I started to slide off of the couch, and he said, "Oh, man, my mom is not doing well."
MITCHELL: There was nobody there to help, until Christian came to the rescue. The nine-year-old boy picked up the telephone and called 911. Paramedics helped talk him through the birth of nine- pound, Janice (ph).
CHRISTIAN ALARCON, HELPED DELIVER BABY: She's hungry; give her a bottle.
Because I'm brave, and I know that once babies come out, they start crying, but she wasn't.
MITCHELL: Christian had to clear the fluid from the newborn's nose and mouth to get her breathing. Her first cry let him know he did everything just right, and some day Christian will tell his little sister about the day she was born. But right now, he's happy just to hold her.
ALARCON: I love her, and she is kind of cute and stuff.
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