Pennsylvania State Trooper Mark Fisher was on his way home from work Tuesday night, but he wasn’t finished shift.
He noticed a car was pulled over, so he and another trooper, Cpl. Brian Wolfe, stopped to assist what they believed to be a disabled vehicle.
They quickly learned a female passenger was in labour.
According to the State Police, 21-year-old Miranda Eaton wanted to get to the hospital rather than wait for paramedics.
But while the troopers were escorting her vehicle, they had to pull off into a convenience store parking lot.
Once there, Eaton’s water broke and the baby’s head was crowning. As a former paramedic, Fisher went into EMT mode and directed Cpl. Wolfe to get supplies from the convenience store.
Wolfe returned with napkins, ice chips, gloves, a blanket and a straw.
Within eight minutes, little Arabella Lewis was born and Fisher ensured her airway was open and monitored her until the ambulance arrived.
“It was a very unique experience,” Fisher told WGAL. “I was very nervous, kind of scared and hopeful that everything would turn out good. I wouldn’t mind not having to do it again,” he added in an interview with PennLive.com.
But Eaton says Fisher was fast, efficient and seemed to know what he was doing. And with just three pushes, the baby was out.
As a memento of the occasion, Fisher gave Eaton and her partner Matthew Lewis his state trooper patch with Arabella’s birthday when he visited them the next day.
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