Special delivery for North Bellport mom
BY JOHN VALENTI
7:46 AM EDT, May 14, 2008
The miracle of childbirth came a little earlier than expected for Shakira Carraco early Wednesday when she gave birth to a daughter in her North Bellport home with the help of a Suffolk County police officer and two emergency medical technicians.
Officer David Henderson got a radio call at 2:47 a.m., informing him of “a female in active maternity.” He arrived moments later at 621 Bellport Ave. to find that Carraco, 19, was not going to make it to a hospital, police said, She was about to deliver her baby.
He got a sterile blanket from his cruiser and placed it under Carraco before the two volunteers from South Country Ambulance arrived.
Police said the two volunteers — Mike Pyzkiewicz and Michelle Benincase — delivered a healthy baby girl with Henderson’s assistance.
The girl was born at exactly 3 a.m. — and the mother and daughter were then transported to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in East Patchogue. Police said the name of the baby girl is so far unknown.
