Police experience 'miracle of childbirth' during traffic stop 
 
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 SEATTLE -- A routine Sunday morning traffic stop in Seattle turned out to be anything but routine when officers helped an expectant mother give birth in her car. 
 
 
 
 Officer Anthony Reynolds was patrolling Martin Luther King Jr. Way South early Sunday morning when he spotted a speeding car blowing through numerous red lights. 
 
 
 
 Reynolds hit his lights and stopped the car at MLK and Graham Street. Before he could even approach the car, the driver, Abdul Abdashiek, opened his door and screamed that his wife was in labor, according to police. 
 
 
 
 Reynolds immediately got on the radio and called for an ambulance, "but the couple's baby was determined to beat medics to the scene," according to police. 
 
 
 
 The mother, Maly Yusuf, can be heard on Reynolds' dashcam video screaming in pain. 
 
 
 
 "Oh my God! The baby's coming out," she said. 
 
 
 
 With Reynolds, Abdashiek and several other officers looking on, Yusuf, gave birth to a baby girl inside the car. 
 
 
 
 "After first giving a full-throated cry as she burst into the world, the young girl began struggling to breathe. With the help of the child's mother, Officer Reynolds cleared the baby's airway and got her breathing again," the police department's Jonah Spangenthal-Lee wrote in a Monday blotter post. 
 
 
 
 An ambulance arrived moments later and transported mother and child to a nearby hospital. As the ambulance leaves, video shows the relieved father hugging Reynolds and his fellow officer. 
 
 
 
 Yusuf and Abdashiek named the baby Hadaya, which they said is Arabic for "gift." The family left a note for the officers who helped them, writing,"You have helped deliver a precious gift. We are so grateful," according to police. ||||| A routine traffic stop on a South Seattle street early Sunday put officers right in the midst of the miracle of childbirth. 
 
 Around 3:45 AM, Officer Anthony Reynolds saw a car running red lights and speeding down Martin Luther King Jr. Way S. When he pulled the car over at MLK and S. Graham Street, the driver jumped out of his car and shouted that his wife was in labor. 
 
 Officer Reynolds called for an ambulance, but the couple’s baby was determined to beat medics to the scene. Officers Lorissa Johnson, Nicholas Kartes and Jason Alvord joined Officer Reynolds at the scene, just as the couple’s baby girl was born. After first giving a full-throated cry as she burst into the world, the young girl began struggling to breathe. With the help of the child’s mother, Officer Reynolds cleared the baby’s airway and got her breathing again. 
 
 Medics arrived and transported the mother and child to a nearby hospital in stable condition. They’re doing well, according to the family, who took the time to send along a nice note thanking officers for their work. “You have helped deliver a precious gift,” they wrote. “we are so grateful.” 
 
 Update: Here’s the letter the family sent to the department:
– Seattle police officers who pulled a vehicle over for speeding and running a red light ended up delivering a bundle of joy instead of a handful of tickets. Officer Anthony Reynolds pulled the vehicle over at around 3:45am Sunday and called for an ambulance when the driver shouted that his wife was in labor, according to the police department. The couple's baby, however, "was determined to beat medics to the scene," police say, and the woman gave birth to a baby girl as three more officers arrived. "After first giving a full-throated cry," police say, the girl "began struggling to breathe," but "with the help of the child's mother, Officer Reynolds cleared the baby's airway and got her breathing again." The couple, who wrote a note thanking the officers for helping deliver "a precious gift," named the girl Hadaya, which is Arabic for "gift," reports KOMO News. (These Canadian cops said they had to go by instinct when they delivered a baby Christmas morning.)