Trooper delivers baby on the side of Mass. highway

State police received a call for help Saturday night from a woman who reported being in labor, and when they arrived at the car pulled to the side of the Mass. Pike in Framingham, they found she was very close to delivering her baby.
   
Mass. State Trooper Paul Copponi is a 20 year veteran and father of three, but had never had to deliver a child, despite being called to several near-deliveries.
   
But when the New York woman on her way to visit family in Cambridge went into labor, he went into action.

The woman gave birth soon after Trooper Copponi arrived.

"She said, 'The baby's coming,' and sure enough, the baby came out," Copponi said.

Other troopers arrived, along with Framingham EMS, and after cutting the baby's umbilical cord, rushed the mother, her baby and other children to the hospital.
   
The woman is now the mother to four boys. She was only eight months pregnant when she went into labor yesterday right near the Framingham rest area.

The baby's father was still in New York when it happened, but drove up to meet his new son.

The mother nicknamed her new son "Paul" after Copponi who helped welcome the boy into the world.