[June 03, 2011] Dad, dispatcher deliver Daniel Tweet LONGMONT, Jun 03, 2011 (Daily Times-Call - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The first thing Daniel Arredondo's dad learned about his young son is that he is a speedy little fellow. Luckily, pop has a good set of hands and caught 7-pound Daniel as he made his grand entrance to the world just a few minutes after 10 a.m. Thursday in the Arredondo's Longmont home. Mike Arredondo, 42, was on the phone with Longmont emergency dispatch as his son arrived and was following dispatcher Laura Randolph's instructions. "I was freaking out," he said of his second child's sudden arrival. "He was like 'Star Trek.' Materialized right there." Arredondo and his wife, Martaluz, 42, had visited the hospital at about 1 a.m., but the couple were sent home after doctors determined Martaluz was not dilated enough for Daniel's pending birth. The couple returned home with some medication to help Martaluz sleep, which she did from about 7 a.m. until 9 a.m., Mike Arredondo said. She was uncomfortable when she woke up, so she walked around and visited the restroom twice before telling her husband it was time. "She said, 'I think the baby is coming,' and I said 'don't say that,'" he recalled. He quickly escorted her to the bed and called 911. He recalls talking to Randolph and pleading for an ambulance. "As I was telling her that, the baby came out and fell in my arms," he said. Meanwhile, Randolph was trying to make out the location of the emergency. "He was frantic," said Randolph, who's been a dispatcher for 20 years. The call "came in on a cellphone so we didn't have the address right away." At first Randolph was just trying to figure out what was happening. "When people were screaming, I was worried I had something bad," she said. Randolph learned in quick succession that a woman was having a baby and then that he had arrived in his stunned father's arms. She stayed on the phone with Michael Arredondo and instructed him on tying off the umbilical cord and clearing the kiddo's airway, then told dad that Officer Bobby Garcia had arrived to help him until paramedics showed up. Randolph said paramedics arrived five minutes after the call came in at 10:05 a.m. Arredondo said he is grateful to everyone who helped his family through Daniel's arrival. To Randolph he sends "a big hug and a kiss for being so patient and being there, being an angel in our house. She made it happen lightning fast." He said Daniel is the couple's second child and that 5-year-old sister Olga stayed in an adjacent room while her new sibling demanded an audience with mom, dad and whoever else could be reached via 911. Randolph, who has assisted with two other births in her career, said it was a good call. "Everybody wants to deliver a baby," she said. "It is fun. It is one of the few happy calls we get here." Pierrette J. Shields can be reached at 303-684-5273 or [email protected]. To see more of the Daily Times-Call, go to http://www.timescall.com. Copyright (c) 2011, Daily Times-Call, Longmont, Colo. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services. For more information about the content services offered by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services (MCT), visit www.mctinfoservices.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]