Hero shopkeeper uses shoelace to help deliver baby in carpark
<p>A Cheap as Chips discount store worker in Logan has been praised as a hero after helping a couple deliver their baby in the carpark behind a 7-Eleven service station. </p>
<p>Sharyn Daley thought it was just another day at work on Friday, when a man ran into her store asking for a towel because his partner had gone into labour.</p>
<p>She quickly sprung into action and helped with a successful delivery before paramedics arrived. </p>
<p>“(All I could think of was) just survival. Someone needed help. So, you just rush and do what you can and instincts take over,” she told <em>Sunrise</em> hosts Nat Barr and Matt Shirvington. </p>
<p>“Dad was in shock. I sort of asked him to get the little toddler out of the back seat and occupy her — she was panicking.</p>
<p>“But after he got his toddler out, I could concentrate on mum and telling her baby is OK."</p>
<p>Daley added that when the baby boy came out he was somewhat discoloured — so, she began squeezing his arm and rubbing his head.</p>
<p>“Mum was very quiet. She introduced herself. I introduced myself. And she just kept saying, ‘is baby OK, Is baby OK?’ I said ‘Yes, I’m patting him hard and stimulating him to get more oxygen in. That’s all’.”</p>
<p>She then grabbed a shoelace to tie off his umbilical cord and used her sock to grab the placenta. </p>
<p>Paramedics arrived shortly after.</p>
<p>Daley, who is a mother-of-three and a grandmother to one, said that she had previously helped deliver puppies, which may have helped her. </p>
<p>“I think it may have (helped) a bit — with tying off the cord — and things like that. (But) keeping mum and bub and dad calm. That was my first priority,” she said.</p>
<p>She also added that she wanted to help the young family get started. </p>
<p>“I would love to speak to them,” Daley said.</p>
<p>“Courtesy of Cheap as Chips where I work. We have a cot, a change table, a mattress and a beautiful big hamper for them to help them get started,” she said.</p>
<p><em>Image: Seven</em></p>
