Cassie Newcomb was at the post office with her 7- week old daughter Rowen when the baby stopped breathing. Postmaster Kayla Coffman of Hokes Bluff, a former paramedic, was able to help Rowen start breathing again.

September 10, 2015 JACKSONVILLE, Ala. (WIAT) — [Postmaster] Kayla Coffman’s was sitting in her office with a supervisor when she heard the sound of a very young baby crying outside the door. The next thing she heard was someone yelling that the baby wasn’t breathing.

While someone called 911, Coffman started treating the baby.

“I looked down and she had turned really red and her eyes were wide open,” Newcomb remembered. “She was not even gasping. Her mouth was really closed tight and she couldn’t get any breaths.”

Newcomb started trying to pound her her baby’s back to clear her airway. She told WIAT 42 that she had no idea what to do, but Coffman did.

“She said it’s okay I’m a paramedic,” Newcomb said. “In my frantic state I was like, a paramedic is working at the post office? What in the world?”

Coffman managed to get the baby to breath again. She and Newcomb cleared the mucus from the baby’s nose and mouth.

By the time paramedics arrived minutes later, the baby was crying. Newcomb tells us that at the hospital, they learned the baby had a lung infection even though she was not exhibiting any other symptoms. Read more