{"id":756462,"date":"2026-02-11T04:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/756462\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T04:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T04:53:17","slug":"new-london-dispatcher-helps-couple-deliver-baby-over-the-phone-nbc-connecticut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/756462\/","title":{"rendered":"New London dispatcher helps couple deliver baby over the phone \u2013 NBC Connecticut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dispatcher Amanda Nichols is receiving recognition from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewLondonPolice\/posts\/pfbid02exQannNJdyFNHAwxW28sJJH3XpZwy5uw2XpfTV7bRD1D4tHLw3Ypk9m9KuGhuuEKl\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewLondonPolice\/posts\/pfbid02exQannNJdyFNHAwxW28sJJH3XpZwy5uw2XpfTV7bRD1D4tHLw3Ypk9m9KuGhuuEKl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">New London Police Department <\/a>for helping a couple deliver a baby over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>On the morning of Feb. 7, Nichols received a call from a man whose wife had gone into labor at 38.5 weeks, and they didn&#8217;t think they&#8217;d make it to the hospital in time. <\/p>\n<p>New London police said Nichols coached the couple over the phone during the delivery process. <\/p>\n<p>Her clear instructions and guidance helped the couple deliver a healthy baby girl before EMS arrived, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dispatcher Nichols&#8217; training, experience, and composure under pressure made all the difference for this\u00a0New\u00a0London\u00a0family during one of the most critical moments of their lives,&#8221; police said in the post. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dispatcher Amanda Nichols is receiving recognition from the New London Police Department for helping a couple deliver a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":756463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,19959,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-756462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-new-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116050212010513398","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}