Media Cover Emergency Baby Delivery in Post Office Parking Lot

Mom and baby taken to Scripps La Jolla after police aid delivery

A new mother sits with her young family in the hospital room with the male police officers who helped deliver her baby.

Mom and baby taken to Scripps La Jolla after police aid delivery

Vanessa Prado made headlines recently when she unexpectedly delivered her new baby boy in a car with the help of two police officers after stopping on the way to the hospital.


Reporters interviewed Prado and the two officers at Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla, where she had been taken by ambulance following the Post Office parking lot delivery.


Watch the Fox 5 report: Police Help Couple Deliver Baby at Post Office


Watch the NBC 7 report: Express Delivery


Watch the 10News report: Special Delivery!


Watch the San Diego 8 report: SDPD Officers Help Deliver Baby in Post Office Parking Lot


The original KUSI video, titled "Mother Gives Birth to Baby in Parking Lot of Mira Mesa Post Office," is not available at this time.

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