Intense video shows officer save newborn as frantic mom cries for help in Michigan

An intense video shows a calm police officer save the life of a newborn baby as her mother frantically cries for help.

The Sterling Heights, Michigan, officer Cameron Maciejewski arrived at a home as the family was running to his patrol vehicle to meet him, dash camera video shows. Their 3-week-old baby girl was not breathing when he arrived.

“He’s still blinking,” Maciejewski assured the mom as he grabbed the baby. “He’s blinking.”

Then the officer turned the baby on her stomach and applied several back thrusts to clear an obstruction. She began crying almost immediately, a sign the baby was breathing, and the mother fell to her knees in the video police posted Monday to Facebook.

“It’s going to be OK, all right?” Maciejewski told the mother.

The baby was taken to the hospital for evaluation, police said.

“If it wasn’t for Ofc. Maciejewski’s quick, calm, lifesaving actions, the outcome of this incident could have been tragically different,” police said in a news release. “Not only did the officer save the baby, but the officer did an outstanding job consoling the family.”

This story was originally published July 13, 2020 at 5:58 PM.