Saved by a voice: dispatcher helps keep baby alive until help arrives

Ashley Finger is healthy today and smiling like a newborn should, not knowing how many were involved in saving her life on her birthday.

Three weeks ago, as Ashley’s mother, Tammy Finger of Johnstown, went into labor, complications hit. It took a Weld County dispatcher; Ashley’s father, Brian Finger; firefighters; and paramedics to pull Ashley through the problems of her birth.

It is called a “prolapsed umbilical cord,” which means the umbilical cord came through the birth canal first. Pressure from the baby on the cord can cut off oxygen and blood flow, and the baby could die.

But on that Saturday morning, they all came to help Ashley.

This past weekend, Ashley and her parents met the rescuers again, especially Weld County dispatcher Michelle Haynes, who led Brian through the steps to save Ashley’s life.

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