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May 13, 2009 8:43 am US/Pacific

CHP Officer Helps Deliver Baby Off I-10 Freeway

LOS ANGELES (CBS) ― A California Highway Patrol officer helped deliver a baby girl Tuesday night on the side of the I-10 Freeway outside downtown Los Angeles.

CHP Officer DeShawn Cobbs and his partner were reportedly helping Caltrans in a maintenance closure on the eastbound San Bernardino Freeway, east of Alameda Street at about 11:25 p.m. when a car pulled into the blocked-off area.

The driver, who was the sister of the pregnant woman, called out to the officers that her sister was in labor, Cobbs said.

"When I got to the car, the woman was wincing in pain the backseat," he said.

"She gave one good push and the head came out, and after another push the baby, a girl, came through," Cobbs said.

The baby was delivered in about two minutes.

The newborn and mother appeared to be healthy as paramedics took them them to a hospital, he said.

Cobbs told reporters, who were at the scene, that he was in the delivery room for the birth of his two children, but this was a first for him.

"You know what, I was nervous, but they trained us on how to do it. I remembered everything, so I did what I was trained to do," he said.

(© 2008 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Wire services contributed to this report.)

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