{"id":285160,"date":"2023-02-13T10:40:08","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=285160"},"modified":"2023-02-10T17:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T23:19:53","slug":"eight-year-old-boy-delivers-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/eight-year-old-boy-delivers-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight-year-old boy helps deliver baby brother before paramedics arrive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An eight-year-old boy is being applauded for stepping up to help deliver his baby brother at home before paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n

According to Fox 8<\/a>, Peilar Matthews went to bed on January 27 thinking that the discomfort she was feeling was just Braxton Hicks contractions. But when she woke up the next morning, she realized she was in labor.<\/p>\n

“When I got up at 5, that’s when [the contractions] started coming back to back,” she said. The only person home with her at the time was her eight-year-old son Malone. She instructed him to call for help.<\/p>\n

“I called the ambulance, then I rushed upstairs to get the towels,” said Malone, who had been hoping for a brother. He realized that the ambulance would not arrive in time. “She was, like, pushing, and I, like, catch … like not catch the baby, but … yeah, catch the baby.”<\/p>\n

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