30 men lift bus to save baby in New York

NEW YORK (AFP) - About 30 men lifted a schoolbus to save a pregnant woman struck by the bus, enabling the baby to be born before the woman died of her injuries, the New York Post said Friday.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg paid tribute to the victim, Donnette Sanz, 33, a traffic cop who was off duty when she was hit Thursday by the bus in the city's Bronx section.
"It is a terrible poignancy that Donnette's son's birthday will now coincide with the day his mother died. She gave her life in service to our city," the mayor said.
"A superhuman effort by 30 strangers who lifted the vehicle off her body miraculously saved her baby before she died," the New York Post said.

"We did not really communicate, we all just started lifting. We lifted it up and someone pulled her out," Madalina Diaz, 42, told the paper.

The woman, six months pregnant, was rushed to the hospital, where the baby was born by caesarian section a few minutes before she died.

From The Motherhood Place:
~ Motherhood ~

If it was going to be easy, it never would have started with something called "Labor!"

going out nowadays entail such a grand preparation that that itself is tiring na.it used to be just the 3 of us and it got easier when the kiddo got older because it meant less bottles to bring, less diaper ..) but with the new bagets we're back to square one plus the kiddo. When we had to have myself and the bagets checked a week after giving birth, we...~err I, manage to put everything in 2 bags. And to think that was a wholeday trip since the baget's pedia sked was at 10am while my ob appointment was at 5pm. The second mall trip, last Sunday, was another tiring one. Ace was arriving from work between 4:30-5pm so that meant that before that time I had to get both kids cleaned, dressed and their dalahins prepared. I started at 230 and ended just in time Ace got home. Actually he got home at 5 but I finished at 530.hehehe...why too long? i had to fix the kids' stuff (which I managed to squezze into just one ..yes, 1 bag!), babath Alessi, get him dressed while he jumps and rolls on the bed, clean Inigo and get him dressed while he squirms like a worm being poked by a stick by pesky kids, express milk to make sure that I don't leak and the bagets has fresh milk, fix the car seats, make sure the strollers are both in the car aaaannnnndddddd presto!!!! we're now ready to leave....its tiring no? hay i miss the days when I can just come and go...another thing that I have to worry about when going out is to make sure that we're going to a mommy-baby friendly mall and that means, they have a clinic (if not a breastfeeding room) where I can express my milk, bathrooms that have clean changing tables and not just those that can be found outside the ladies' room which can be dirty na, elevators that would fit 2 huge strollers and take note there should also be quite a number of elevator available to make sure that we can go up and down each level with ease unlike in Greenhills Shopping Center where they only have 1 (in the Vmall building only.Shoppesville doesnt have any) plus not to mention, the area where people would stroll and walk about while perusing each store should also be ...WIDE. Again, Greenhills doesnt have this if you're in the Tiangge area and in the Shoppesville building. I'll blog about this another time. I hafta to go the kids are awake and bawling their lungs out..babu!

Alessi suddenly kneels on the floor and does a sweeping gesture

Mommy: what are you doing?

Alessi (standing up and at the same time gesturing to the floor seemingly trying to show off his good deed): good? good?

Mommy (realizes that the kiddo was trying to clean the floor, laughingly asks): are you good?

Alessi: No