Dad praises Calif. kids who helped bear baby

SAN FRANCISCO – Aback Alana Sanders gave bearing to her fourth child, the bodies on duke to anhydrate off the babyish and tie its umbilical bond weren't the accepted aggregation of doctors or nurses. They were her 11-year-old babe and 9-year-old son.
The Northern California woman accidentally went into activity at her home in Fremont and was affected to about-face to her kids, Faith and Jabari, afterwards giving bearing while continuing in her bathroom.
Father Geoffrey Sanders, 35, said Thursday he had larboard for assignment about 1:30 a.m. and was not about aback the babyish came on March 9.
He said his kids are much brighter than their age.
I'm a appreciative father, he said. It's affectionate of a pat on the aback that we are accomplishing article right.
Alana Sanders, 36, said her kids backward composed throughout the ordeal.
They didn't aberration out. They didn't action with anniversary other, she told the Oakland Tribune.
Geoffrey Sanders said his wife was not accessible for added comment,
A 911 recording appear Wednesday attests to the children's poise, as they relayed letters amid their mother and a dispatcher.
She's starting to bleed, Jabari says at one point in the recording.
His mother can again be heard screaming.
The baby's already here, he tells the dispatcher, as the babyish begins to cry.
Faith again gets on the phone, and the bagman tells her to apple-pie the babyish with a apple-pie anhydrate and tie, not cut, the umbilical bond with a cord or shoelace about six inches from the baby's body.
You did a abundant job the bagman says, as paramedics arrive.
Alana Sanders and the newborn, Joseph, were taken to Saint Rose Hospital in Hayward. The boy, who advised 9 pounds and 4 ounces, was healthy, Geoffrey Sanders said.
Faith told the San Francisco Chronicle the acquaintance was exciting.
Usually annihilation happens everyday, she said. It's the same-old, same-old.
Jabari said the bearing was "cool and weird."