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Shrimp Boat Captain Delivers Baby Sea - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 31st Aug, 2007 - 8:23pm
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When the cook on his shrimp boat went into labor 30 miles offshore, captain Ed Kiesel grabbed a new roll of paper towels and a first aid handbook and did the best he could.
Shrimp Boat Captain Delivers Baby At Sea
This captain is a hero! Not only he delivered this child but saved his life. The baby was not breathing and he performed CPR for 25 minutes until the baby was able to breathe on his own. What a wonderful ending!
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| He successfully delivered Cindy Preisel's baby boy, even though the baby's feet emerged first. "I'm no doctor, but even I knew that's not supposed to happen," Kiesel said. "I reached with my fingers ... as gently as I could and popped out his left shoulder and then his right," he said. "But then the little guy was stuck by his head, being strangled. So I did the only thing I could _ I waited for a contraction and then slid my fingers in around the top of his head and scooped him out." But the newborn wasn't breathing, so Kiesel gently administered CPR. "I started giving mouth-to-mouth, three short puffs, and then thumping and rubbing its back," he said. The baby began to take short breaths, and after 20 to 25 minutes of CPR, gulped in air. His lips turned rosy and he started crying. "I was so happy and relieved," Cindy Preisel said. "It's hard to put into words." Kiesel used net twine, sterilized in boiling water, to tie off the umbilical cord and cut the newborn free from his mother. Friends waited at the dock in Freeport, about 55 miles south of Houston, with bottles and baby clothes. Preisel named the baby Brian Edward Mawhorr, after his father and the captain who delivered him. The baby wasn't due until mid-September.... |
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I always enjoy reading stories about men (who are not doctors) delivering babies. It is shocking that he delivered a breach birth baby very successfully! I don't know why, but it brought tears to my eyes when I read the description of how he gently pulled the baby out! This captain seems to be a fast learner, since he used a first aid hand book as a guide, to perform CPR on the newborn, after he discovered that he was not breathing! Considering his profession and the location, I thought he did a fantastic job in bringing this newborn into this world!
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