NY Dispatcher Coaches Couple as Baby is Born in Parking Lot

Maki Becker The Buffalo News, N.Y. (MCT) The husband sounded nervous. “My wife’s in labor. I think she’s actually going to have… just deliver… right now.” Calling 911 from an empty parking lot near Buffalo Niagara International Airport, he could tell that his wife, Cassandra, wasn’t going to make it to the hospital. The Cheektowaga public safety dispatcher sounded steady and reassuring. Dispatcher Jennifer Mazgajewski would help the couple make it through the next eight harrowing minutes — an exchange captured on an audio recording of the 911 call and shared Wednesday by the Cheektowaga Police Department. It was 1:51 p.m. last Friday, a day past Cassandra’s due date, when she started having contractions. The contractions came about 10 minutes apart when she called her doctor, and Steven and Cassandra, who asked that their last names not be publicized, started heading from their home in Clarence to Sisters Hospital in Buffalo. Cassandra texted her mom that they were on their way to the hospital, asking her to pick up their son from day care. As they drove, Cassandra’s contractions rapidly grew closer together and more powerful. “Then my water broke in the car,” Cassandra recounted to The Buffalo News in a phone interview. “Are we going to make it to the hospital?” she recalled her husband ...
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