LAPORTE COUNTY — An Indiana State Police trooper made an unexpected delivery on Friday when he helped deliver a baby on the Indiana Toll Road.
According to a report from the Indiana State Police, Trooper Thomas Maymi was working on the toll road near the 52 mile marker. He was parked observing traffic when a semi stopped on the westbound side of the interstate.
State police said the male driver of the semi got out of his truck and ran across the highway toward the trooper while requesting assistance. The man told Trooper Maymi that his wife is pregnant and that she may be in labor.
The trooper went with the man to the truck to check on the man's wife and was greeted by the driver's wife who told him she was in labor. Trooper Maymi recognized there was not enough time to transport the woman to the hospital and began to assist the woman with contractions until LaPorte County EMS arrived on the scene.
Two minutes after paramedics were on scene, the baby was delivered. The mom and baby were then transported to LaPorte Hospital.
The mom, Shaniqua Traywick, the dad, Carl Robertson, and the baby, Malaki Thomas Robertson, are all doing well, state police said. The baby's middle name is Thomas after Trooper Maymi. Baby Malaki weighed 6 pounds 3 ounces.
"We were all troopers that day," Traywick told state police.
