A frantic aunt battles to breathe life into her baby nephew in a drama on a busy motorway.
Pamela Rauseo, 37, leapt from her four-wheel drive when her sister’s son, five-month-old Sebastian de la Cruz, suddenly stopped crying in a traffic jam.
She found him turning blue.
Pamela said: “He had lost all colour and was limp. Completely limp. It was frightening.”
Screaming for help, she cradled the child in her arms and began the kiss of life.
“I don’t know how I remembered what to do. I just knew I couldn’t let him die.
“I was in a panic. I could not let anything happen to the baby. My sister had trusted me with him.”
Photographer Al Diaz, caught in the traffic chaos on the Dolphin Expressway in Florida, captured these dramatic images.
Diaz ran for help and just as the baby began breathing he found policeman Amauris Bastidas. He said: “I lifted him up and he started gulping air and crying.”
Then, to the horror of rescuers, Sebastian stopped breathing again. Pamela, Bastidas and Diaz frantically re-started CPR and got his lungs working.
By that time more help had arrived. Two officers from Miami Fire Service checked Sebastian’s airway was clear before he was rushed to hospital.
The baby was born early with respiratory problems. Today he was said to be stable.
He was photographed in the arms of his mother Paola with the colour returned to his face.
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