EVERGREEN — Although Landon Davis will never remember his birth early Monday morning , Quintin Galt , a paramedic who helped deliver him on the on-ramp of Interstate 70, likely will never forget it.
“The feeling you get from your own child being delivered is not much different from helping another mom deliver her child,” Galt said. “It’s like no other feeling.”
Galt, along with another medic and three firefighters from Evergreen Fire Rescue , were called to assist Landon’s parents, Mark and Sarah Davis ,at 4:25 a.m. Monday morning. The couple was headed from their Evergreen home to Lutheran Medical Center in Wheat Ridge.
“It’s a 10 to15 minute drive to the interstate from our house, but we didn’t quite make it,” Mark Davis said. Sarah “said, ‘You need to pull over, my water just broke.’ “
Paramedics placed Sarah Davis into an ambulance to continue on to the hospital with Mark Davis following behind, but less than a minute later, the vehicle pulled over and Landon was born.
“I ran up to the window as Landon was coming into the world and there he was,” Mark Davis said.
Galt, a paramedic for seven years, said this was his fourth time helping with a delivery, something unusual for an emergency responder. Despite the required obstretrics training, many responders will never see a birth.
Galt said he was the only one of first-responders with the Davises who had ever assisted with a delivery. “There were definitely some comments made about the excitement of it all.”
Landon weighed at eight pounds, 10 ounces and required no life-saving maneuvers. Galt said he and his team worked like clockwork together and the birth was as smooth as they could have hoped.
“I think the first words out of (Sarah’s) mouth were her son’s name, ‘Meet baby Landon,’ ” he recalled.
Sarah Simmons: 303-954-1210 or ssimmons@denverpost.com
