""Lucky for her, Christopher Accettulli, an experienced bus driver but also a great human being, stayed calm and cool," said MTA CEO Janno Lieber."
""It was in the hospital, I was far away from the action," he said. "I was just a bystander on that one.""
""I put her in my sweater, wrapped her up, I rubbed her back to make sure she was awake," he said."
Christopher Accettulli, a 20-year MTA veteran driving the B37 bus down Third Avenue, helped deliver a baby on Jan. 23 after a passenger alerted him that a woman aboard needed to go to the hospital. He pulled into a stop on 8th Street in Gowanus when passengers warned she was giving birth. After calling supervisors and 911, the woman’s water broke and the infant arrived before emergency responders could reach them. Accettulli followed 911 instructions, assisted the mother, caught and wrapped the crying newborn in his sweater, and stimulated the baby’s breathing. EMTs later cleared both and transported them to New York Presbyterian-Brooklyn Methodist Hospital.
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