10-Year-Old Helps Deliver Baby Sister

When 10-year-old Johnathan Carter says he wants to be a doctor when he grows up, he’s got an idea of what’s involved--he has already helped deliver a baby.

Johnathan was getting ready for bed Friday when his mother went into labor. He led his mother to a couch, then called an ambulance.

“He was really upset and was crying when he called,” said dispatcher Connie Guerrero. She told Johnathan to check if he could see the baby’s head.

He yelled back: “It’s coming, it’s coming,” she said. “I then told him to calm down because ‘you and I are going to deliver this baby.’ ”

While his mother pushed, Johnathan carefully gripped the emerging baby and pulled.

It was over within six minutes of his call. When paramedics arrived, they found Johnathan had already carefully wrapped his sister in a towel, and she was being held by their mother.