2 New Jersey state troopers help deliver Fil-Am couple’s baby

State Trooper Tony Lee,Cecilia and Lou Ingles with Baby Mateo, and State Trooper Luis Valle. FACEBOOK

BRIDGEWATER, New Jersey — Two New Jersey State Police troopers helped deliver a Filipino American couple’s baby on the shoulder of a highway in Somerset County on Tuesday morning, April 25.

Cecilia Ingles was on her way to the hospital when she told her husband, Lou Ingles, she wasn’t going to make it. They pulled over to a shoulder of Interstate 287 at exit 14 and hailed two state troopers nearby.

Troopers Luis Valle and Tony Lee, both of Troop “B” Somerville Station, helped deliver Mateo Ingles right there on the side of the interstate.

State police said paramedics who arrived didn’t have a clamp to cut the umbilical cord, so Lee used his phone charger to tie off the cord so that it could be cut.

The mom and baby were doing well after being taken to St. Peter’s University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Mateo weighed in at a healthy 7 pounds, 11 ounces.