With her first baby, labor lasted several days — so when Stefanie Andrade of Amityville started to feel labor pains yesterday morning, she chose to wait it out.
Contractions began at 1 a.m., but by 7 a.m., Andrade called her husband who was at work.
“I said you have to come home, you can’t leave me here,” said Andrade. “I’m going to have this baby right now.”
And she wasn’t kidding. She called her sister, who called 911, and the dispatcher at Suffolk County Fire Rescue and Emergency Services, Corine Batista, helped talk her through it.
"As soon as she got situated on the floor, I had her put a towel towel underneath her," explained Batista. “And we started delivering the baby."
Andrade's first baby was delivered via cesarean section and she was worried there might be a complication.