A 10-year-old girl named Miracle Moore lived up to her name after she bravely helped her pregnant mother deliver her baby sister at home.
When Viola Fair, 30, from Jennings, Missouri, went into labor three weeks before her due date, her daughter jumped into action after seeing that there was not enough time to get to the hospital.
Miracle contacted 911 and connected with a dispatcher named Scott Stranghoener who calmly spoke with her through the birthing process, as reported by Today.
The fourth grader unlocked the front door for the emergency responders and stayed on the phone with the operator for nearly 11 minutes as she waited for the ambulance to arrive.
Listen to Miracle's 911 call below:The little girl followed the dispatcher's instructions over the phone and told her mother that she needed to lie down on her back in the center of a bed or on the floor.
Stranghoener then advised Miracle to grab towels or blankets and place them underneath Fair's body as she was struggling to lie on her back.
The mother could be heard screaming in pain in the background while her daughter assured her by saying, "It's ok, mama, it's ok!" before telling Stranghoener, "I think her water broke."
"She's coming! she's coming!" Miracle yelled, firmly demanding that her mother needed to lie down. She then saw her baby sister's head and said: "She's here! She's poking out."
"She's out! She's breathing and she's crying now," the daughter told the dispatcher after her mother delivered the baby. Stranghoener then told advised her to gently wipe off newborn Jayla's mouth and nose.
The youngster made sure the umbilical cord was not wrapped around Jayla's neck before she wrapped her in a clean towel and covered her head, per the dispatcher's instructions.
"I learned pretty quick that we had a serious situation." Stranghoener told NBC news affiliate KSDK News. "We have a set of protocols that we follow, and she followed all of my instructions to a 'T' and did an amazing job."
Fair also said that the entire experience "was definitely a miracle because once I had the baby, she came out, I couldn’t really grab her and pick her up, and then Miracle came and she wrapped her up in a towel".
"She wiped her off and rubbed her back a little bit, so she could cry. So she was really helpful. I am very thankful," the mother said of her daughter.
Following the successful delivery, Miracle revealed at an event - where she was awarded certificates for her achievement - that she wants to become a uniformed paramedic in the future.
According to the New York Post, she also added that the best part of the entire experience was getting to be the first person who saw Jayla.
Well done to this hero!
