The tiniest soul is capturing the hearts of the first responders who helped save her life. Baby Evelyn and her family stopped in to Norfolk Fire Station 10 for a very special reunion.
Evelyn is now four months old. She grinned at responders as they held her Saturday.
“I am just so grateful,” Evelyn’s mother Ashely Nesbitt said. “Thank you.”
The story starts at Evelyn’s birth in September.
“I did plan on a home birth,” said Nesbitt. “We were completely prepared, the birth was going incredible.”
The birth started smoothly before it took a turn.
“Once we got to where she was actually birthing we found she had shoulder dystocia.”
Help was needed.
“As soon as she was out, we noticed she was pretty purple. We tried CPR, baby CPR, my husband is certified so he started right away. It was pretty quick that I looked at her and said okay go ahead and call,” said Nesbitt.
“We were dispatched to a home address for a cardiac arrest for a newborn,” explained Norfolk firefighter paramedic Christopher Ealy.