EMS Lieutenant on the Scene of Baby Delivery in Cab

EMS Lt. Craig Wing helped a family after a baby was delivered in a taxi on March 10, but it was nothing he hadn’t seen before. He has delivered approximately 50 babies since he came on the job in 1986.

“At this the point I just know what to do,” said Lt. Wing. “Try to keep the mother calm, tell jokes. It’s what we do every day, and in this case, everything worked out great.”

At 7:15 a.m., he overheard a call for a woman who gave birth in the back of a taxi on 86th Street and Ft. Hamilton Parkway in Brooklyn.

He was just blocks away from the location, so he quickly responded to the scene, where he found the woman, her husband, her 4-year-old son and the taxi driver.

“I don’t know who was happier to see me, the cabbie or the mother,” Lt. Wing joked.

The newborn baby boy looked healthy, but had the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. So when another EMS unit arrived, Lt. Wing cut the cord and handed the baby off to the family, who were transported to Lutheran Medical Center.