An eight-year-old boy is being applauded for stepping up to help deliver his baby brother at home before paramedics arrived.
According to Fox 8, 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.
“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.
“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.”
The ambulance arrived soon after and took Matthews and her new baby to the hospital. Both are reported to be doing well.
“A lot of kids would have panicked under pressure,” said Malachi Brown, Malone’s father. “For him to be able to go get towels, call 911, call the ambulance, and not panic, so much, I’m very proud of him.” He added that he has encouraged his son in the past to consider becoming a doctor.
“I’m just happy Malone stood up and did a right thing. I know he could do it again if he had to, but he probably doesn’t want to,” said Brown. “But I know that he can.”
Malone is proud of himself too. “Because I did it, and the doctors didn’t, [I] saved my mom some money,” he said.
But for as much as he knows he did a good thing, he wishes everyone would stop paying him so much attention. “It’s cool, but I wish everybody would stop talking about it,” he said. “Because it’s a happy thing, but this is gonna be in my life forever now.”
