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Suffolk Cop Warms Newborn Baby After Mom's Roadside Birth On Sunrise Highway In Holbrook

He kept the 26-year-old North Bellport mom's infant's vitals stable in the biting cold while waiting for paramedics to arrive.

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A 26-year-old North Bellport woman, who gave birth to a baby girl at the side of Sunrise Highway in Holbrook, on Wednesday afternoon, was helped by a highway patrol officer, Suffolk police said.
A 26-year-old North Bellport woman, who gave birth to a baby girl at the side of Sunrise Highway in Holbrook, on Wednesday afternoon, was helped by a highway patrol officer, Suffolk police said. (Shutterstock)

HOLBROOK, NY — A highway patrol officer helped a 26-year-old North Bellport woman who gave birth to an infant girl at the side of Sunrise Highway on Wednesday afternoon, Suffolk police said.

Officer Jesse Wenk had been responding to a 911 call of a woman who delivered a baby in her car on the westbound side of Sunrise Highway, just west of Exit 50, around 4:30 p.m., according to police.

Wenk helped the woman warm the baby with a jacket, ensuring her vitals were stable while waiting for the Holbrook Fire Department's ambulance to arrive, police said.

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Both the mom and her newborn baby were taken to South Shore University Hospital in Bay Shore for evaluation, and they are now doing well, according to police.

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