Two women credited with saving a baby’s life in an Alpharetta restaurant reunited with the baby’s family Friday afternoon.
Channel 2 Action News was there when they reunited for the first time since saving Ethan Daniel’s life. The now 22-month old returned to Scottish Rite with his twin brother and dad to meet the women who saved Ethan’s life.
“We just happened to be in the right place at the right time,” Williams told Channel 2.
Stephany Melton, a respiratory therapist, and Belinda Williams, a neonatal intensive care unit nurse, were getting dinner at Pappadeaux’s Seafood Kitchen after their shift March 18, when a woman cried out, “My baby isn’t breathing.”
The women ran toward the mother and took 17-month-old Ethan. Williams assessed the baby’s breathing and looked for a pulse. Finding no pulse, they called out for someone in the restaurant to call 911.
Williams opened Ethan’s airway and Melton started compressions.
They began asking the father for a history and found out the baby had been sick with a fever. Melton was still administering compressions when the baby started having a seizure.
An ambulance eventually arrived and took Ethan to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.
His father said Ethan is 100 percent healthy now.
