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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDramatic Moments On Miami’s Expressway! Woman Jumps Out Of Car With A Dying Baby In Her Arms.
Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer captured dramatic moments on Dolphin Expressway in Miami on Thursday night when a woman stoped her car and jumped out calling for help while traffic came to a halt.
37-year-old Pamela Rauseo stopped her car on the busy highway last night, asking passing drivers to help her 5-month-old nephew who stopped breathing! Al Diaz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Miami Herald, happened to be driving behind the woman.
A woman pops out of the car and starts screaming My baby can't breathe! My baby can't breathe! Call 911! So I got out of my car and ran over to help her, Diaz told CBSMiami.
As a photojournalist you want to capture these images, but as a human being you want to get help,â he told the New York Daily News.
Little Sebastian was born prematurely and has respiratory problems, according to the Herald. Hes now in stable condition at a Miami hospital.
As Rauseo performed CPR, Diaz ran through traffic until he found Officer Amauris Bastidas of the Sweetwater Police Department. A bystander, Lucila Godoy, left her 3-year-old son in her own car to offer help. Capt. Anthony Trim and Lt. Alvaro Tonanez with Miami-Dade Fire Rescues hazardous materials unit also joined in the rescue as Diaz snapped these dramatic photos.
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CaliforniaPeggy
(149,791 posts)You never know what kind of a difference you can make until it happens.
Wow.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)sheshe2
(84,057 posts)I nearly lost my niece at 1 1/2 years. As I stood over her still form, I prayed for her and asked that if a choice was needed, I would trade my life for hers.
She survived and sweet baby Sebastian did too. The pictures are heart wrenching. The love of those that rushed to help, beautiful indeed.
You are right, that's what it is all about.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)and though he was a healthy weight, he had apnea for about three months. The doctors said his brain just had to catch up with the different stimuli. Usually he'd stop breathing when he ate and a finger flick on the bottom of his foot would start him up again - but sometimes he'd just forget. The first time it happened when I was driving with him caused a bit of a panic for me; I was in a turn lane, glanced over and realized he wasn't breathing and went into full alert mode. Reached over and flicked his feet - no response. That meant I needed to get him out of the car seat - which meant I had to get out of my seat belt - but first put the car in park - then the light changed and the car behind me starts honking . . .
By the time I was out of the car and around to the passenger side, a police officer was running toward the car. He got my son out of the seat (he was turning blue) and just as he was about to start mouth to mouth, my son started breathing again.
He was fine - I think the officer and I felt like we'd run minute mile.
It's scary stuff and I'm very glad the lady and her baby are okay.
*post script - that baby is 33 now (almost 34) and is doing just fine.
Chorophyll
(5,179 posts)Excellent post script.
sheshe2
(84,057 posts)You are so brave! You did it and your baby is now an adult.
enlightenment
(8,830 posts)that experience was really helpful. I was very young and a single mom (with lots of help from my family, so not alone) - that little trial by fire taught me how not to panic, and that has served me well both in raising that boy and living my life. It's not bravery; it's just doing what you have to do and I suspect you've done the same many, many times.
Act first, fall apart later. It works (though you should have seen my reaction the day he (as a 9 month old crawler) came out from underneath the floor length curtains in the dining room, a still writhing palmetto bug clamped between his jaws. The guy at poison control thought I was a real hoot and a half . . . as a matter of fact, I think every person listening to the conversation was laughing).
The boy's a vegetarian now. I don't think it has anything to do with his early experience of gumming a giant cockroach to death.
Journeyman
(15,044 posts)people doing what they should be doing. . .
msongs
(67,496 posts)sheshe2
(84,057 posts)Well first of all, at the link it says he does....
However here is some more for you~
But when he saw a desperate woman jump out of her SUV in Miami on Thursday and scream for help as the baby in her arms turned blue, Diaz reached for help.
The Miami Herald photographer ran among cars along the Dolphin Expressway and found a Sweetwater cop in his patrol car. Diaz told him about the baby who had stopped breathing.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/baby-stopped-breathing-helped-miami-photog-article-1.1622091#ixzz2uIpFSDG8
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