Community EMS: Mother Delivers Daughter Early in Ambulance with Help from EMT Who Trained Baby’s Firefighter Father
Kayla Alvarez delivered her second daughter Mariah in an unlikely place thanks to the help of an unlikely friend.
The 25-year-old Mass. mom was 38 weeks pregnant when she went into labor in the early hours of the morning on Jan. 29. Knowing that her daughter was coming and urged the baby’s father, firefighter Prescott Caisey, to call an ambulance and take them to Milford Regional Medical Center.
“I told him, ‘I need to, you know, get ready because I think the baby’s going to come,’” Alvarez told Spectrum News, explaining that her contractions had been “10 to 15 minutes apart” when she went to bed the night before. I kind of knew birth was coming, but not right that night. … And as I got up to start getting ready, my contractions just hit me like a truck.”
Help arrived quickly after from a familiar face: emergency medical technician (EMT) Ruben Torres. The paramedic, who’s also a full-time Worcester firefighter, told WCVB 5 Boston that Caisey was one of his EMS instructors when he was training to join the Worcester Fire Department.
“I asked them, ‘Which hospital are we going to?’ and Ruben looks up at me and says ‘Memorial’ and we locked eyes and it clicked,” Caisey told WHDH TV-7 News. “I said, ‘Oh, I know you!’ It was a funny moment right there.”
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