14 DAY TRIAL // When her mother went into labor on Monday morning, an amazing 8-year-old Florida girl kept calm, called 911 and helped the mom deliver her baby brother.
Krystle Garcia was getting ready for work when her water broke and went into labor at her Tampa, Florida, home. She kind of panicked when she realized she wouldn’t make it to the hospital and she would have to give birth to her son at home, but had a reliable person by her side – her daughter Jazmine McEnaney.
“I was freaking out,” she said, according to Yahoo News. “I was like, I am home alone with my 8-year-old daughter. What am I going to do, you know? Even if I call somebody, they're not going to come quick enough because it happened so fast.”
The baby was due only two weeks later, but apparently he decided to make his debut into this world ahead of schedule.
When Krystle started screaming in the bathroom floor, Jazmine realized her mother was in big pain and called emergency services to ask for help. However, there was not enough time for the paramedics to arrive at the family’s house, as Krystle’s labor only lasted six minutes and baby Joseph James Snyder was very impatient to meet his mother and sister.
“My mom is pregnant and her water just broke,” the girl told a 911 operator.
After assessing the situation, the emergency operator stayed on the phone and gave Jazmine precise instructions as to what to do to deliver baby Joseph safely. The infant was born several minutes before paramedics arrived at the scene, weighing 5 pounds 10 ounces (2.55 kg).
Thanks to the brave little girl, the 29-year-old mother and her newborn son were taken to the hospital in good condition.
The woman told reporters that she was very agitated in those moments and panicked because she didn’t know what to do, but her daughter remained incredibly calm and carefully followed the 911 dispatcher’s directions. She was especially worried because there was a lot of blood and the situation was overwhelming for an eight-year-old child.
However, Jazmine handled the situation like a pro, and she even received a special certificate entitled “Best Sister Ever,” issued by the Tampa General Hospital.
“She definitely stayed calm when she needed to. I was hysterical,” her mother said. “If it wasn't for her being calm as she was, it would've been a lot worse.”