Lifeguard Natalie Lucas knows what to do if it looks like a swimmer's in distress. The 18-year-old has less experience with childbirth but she still jumped in to help Tessa Rider as she delivered son Toby.
Lifeguard Natalie Lucas knows what to do if it looks like a swimmer's in distress. The 18-year-old has less experience with childbirth but she still jumped in to help Tessa Rider as she delivered son Toby.The pool feels quiet on Sundays at the YMCA of Northern Colorado. Lifeguard Natalie Lucas, 18, works alone to watch fewer than a dozen people swimming. July 24 was an exception to a lazy Sunday when a swimmer gave birth beside the pool.
“She looks at me and says, ‘We need to go,’” Jones, 29, of Longmont, Colorado, told TODAY Parents. “Tessa has barely made it out of the pool, she’s like two, three steps from the rail. She’s on all fours and she’s visibly in pain and also in the middle of the contraction.”Jones thought he’d grab their stuff and head to the car for the hospital but it soon became clear that would not happen. Lucas saw Rider “crawling out of the pool” and wondered if she was OK.
“I start trying to help in any way I can, trying to support her and make sure she’s comfortable,” Lucas said. “They’re both staying extremely calm, which helps me because I’m shaking a little. But I know I need to help and make sure I’m there with them in any way I can because I’m the lifesaver.”“Within seconds the baby’s heading is coming out,” Jones said. “The baby’s body comes out, along with a torrent of amniotic fluid from her water breaking as the baby comes out.
When the ambulance arrived right before 11 a.m., the EMTs cut the umbilical cord and took mom and baby to the hospital. The two were healthy and “Toby was in perfect condition.”Lucas feels like delivering a baby is just part of the job as lifeguard.
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